James Stitt Thomson trained in Edinburgh and at the University of St Andrews and began his career as Medical Officer of Health in Dalkeith. In 1896 he moved to Lincoln, where he worked as Physician at Lincoln County Hospital and Consulting Physician to the Lincoln General Dispensary. He also served as Surgeon to the Great Northern, Great Eastern, and Great Central and Midland Railway Companies, and as Medical Referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act and for several life assurance companies. He died in Edinburgh in September 1910 aged fifty-seven.

John Ross Home Ross was born in Travancore, India, and trained in Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1886. He worked initially in Edinburgh as Clinical Assistant to the Dermatological Department of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and later as Physician to the Western Dispensary. In 1893 he moved to Rangoon, now Yangon, where he served as Physician at the Dufferin Hospital. He returned to England in 1900 and worked as a general practitioner in Lower Kingswood, Surrey, until his death in February 1939 aged seventy-four.

George Lovell Gulland was born and trained in Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1886 and his MD in 1890. He worked at several Edinburgh hospitals and served as Assistant to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart. He undertook research work as Assistant to Ray Lankester and was among the first staff appointed to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh research laboratory, later becoming its director. In 1915 he was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, a post he held until his retirement in 1928. He published several works, including 'The Blood: A Guide to its Examination'. He served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1923 to 1925. He died in Edinburgh in May 1941 aged seventy-nine.

William John Harnett trained at the University of Dublin and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, becoming a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1865. He later earned a Diploma in Public Health in 1890. He spent most of his career working in London, including as Consulting Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital, Barnet, and as Surgeon to the South Division of the Metropolitan Police. He also served as Medical Officer in Charge to the 7th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, and later as Surgeon-Major in the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers. He died in Barnet in 1915.

Alexander Bruce Low was born in Edinburgh in 1856 and studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Vienna. He earned his MB CM in 1878 and his MD in 1881, winning prizes in surgery and clinical medicine. He spent most of his career in Sunderland, where he was Vice-President of the Sunderland and North Durham Medical Society and published papers in its Transactions. He also held posts at local hospitals, including the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland, and Monkwearmouth Hospital. He died in Norwood in 1927.

William Russell was born in the Isle of Man in 1852 and trained in Edinburgh. After a short period as a hospital physician in Wolverhampton, he returned to Edinburgh, where he taught at the extramural medical school before being appointed Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1913. He published widely and was the first to describe the pathological structures later known as Russell bodies. He supported the admission of women to medical education and practice, opening his ward at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to women and, during his presidency of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1916 to 1918, initiating changes that allowed women to become Members of the College. He retired in 1919 and died in Edinburgh in 1940.

Albert Hirst trained at Guy's Hospital, London, and also studied in Glasgow and Manchester. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1871 and earned his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1888. His career included service as Medical Officer on a plantation in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, and as ship's surgeon on the SS City of Mecca. He lectured for the St John Ambulance Association and acted as Medical Referee for several assurance companies. He later served as Physician to the Queen Adelaide Dispensary in London and died in Hackney in 1908.

James Murray Lindsay earned his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1859. After a brief period as House Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, he spent most of his career working in asylums. His first appointment was as Acting Physician at James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics near Perth, filling the post vacated by his brother, William Lauder Lindsay. He later held posts at several institutions before becoming Superintendent of the Derby County Asylum. He served as President of the Medico-Psychological Association and died in Aldershot in 1911.

George Harry Melville Dunlop trained in Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1880 and his MD in 1884. He worked at several hospitals in the city, notably the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, where he specialised in diseases of childhood and published on the subject. During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of Major, and was stationed at Etaples, France, where he died in 1916.

Diarmid Noel Paton was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1882. He served as House Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. In 1886 he was appointed Lecturer in Physiology at Surgeons' Hall and in 1890 became Superintendent of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh research laboratory. From 1906 until his retirement in 1928 he was Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and died in Peeblesshire in 1928.