William Stewart trained at the University of Glasgow and Anderson's University, Glasgow, qualifying in 1864. For many years he served as Honorary Surgeon at Beckett Hospital in Barnsley, Yorkshire, before returning to Scotland in 1890 to live in Prestwick, Ayrshire. He published several articles, including 'A New Theory of the Origins of Typhoid Fever' in the British Medical Journal and 'On Laryngismus Stridulus' in The Lancet.

Reginald Louis Verley was born circa 1851 in Jamaica. After travelling to Britain, he trained at University College London and spent his career working in hospitals in London. He was a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He served first as Physician at the Hospital for Diseases of the Heart in Soho Square and later as Surgeon at the North West London Hospital for Women. He died in Brighton in 1906.

Thomas Rutherford Ronaldson trained at the University of Edinburgh and worked in the city throughout his career. He held posts at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as Resident Physician and Resident Surgeon, and served as Medical Officer at the Fountainbridge Dispensary. A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, he was also a Member and one-time President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Ronaldson published several articles on midwifery and neonatal health, including 'Tetanoid Convulsions in an Infant' in the Edinburgh Medical Journal. He retired in 1930 at the age of seventy-eight.

Thomas Anderson obtained his MB from Edinburgh, having trained at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. He worked as Medical Assistant at the Southern Counties Asylum near Dumfries and subsequently at the Crichton Royal Institution. In 1874 he was appointed the First Physician Superintendent of the Midlothian and Peebles Asylum, later Rosslynlee Hospital, a post he held until ill health forced his resignation in 1880. He became a Fellow of the College in 1876.

Alexander Ballantyne was born at Chorley in 1838, his family moving shortly thereafter to Dalkeith. He obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1860 and undertook further study in Vienna and Berlin. After working briefly at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, he served as assistant to Dr Anderson of Selkirk. He later returned to Dalkeith to establish a practice, where he worked for many years as a family doctor and District Medical Officer. The practice was subsequently taken over by his son, Harold S Ballantyne. He died at Gullane on 3 October 1916.

Alexander Montgomerie Bell was born in 1842, the son of John Montgomerie Bell, advocate and Sheriff of Kincardineshire. He obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1863 and practised initially in Fife before moving to St Boswells, Roxburghshire. He later settled in Edinburgh, where he worked at the New Town Dispensary and served for several years as Assistant Surgeon to the Midlothian Coast Artillery Volunteers. He became a Fellow of the College in 1877 and died on 28 July 1884 from complications arising from a longstanding heart condition.

John Connel graduated MA with honours in Classics at the University of St Andrews before commencing medical studies in Edinburgh, where he obtained his MB in 1867 and MD in 1873. In 1867 he took over a large practice in Peebles from Dr Junor. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1877 and was an active member of several professional societies, serving as President of both the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society and the Harveian Society, as well as of the Border Counties Branch of the British Medical Association. He died in Peebles on 2 November 1901.

David Hope Watson trained in Edinburgh and was made a Licentiate of the College in 1859, and a Fellow in 1877. He spent much of his career in practice in Stockton-on-Tees, where he also worked as a surgeon for the North Eastern Railway. He died in Stockton-on-Tees in January 1890.

William Rutherford was born in Roxburghshire in 1839 and graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1863. He was appointed House Physician at the Royal Infirmary and assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Surgeons' Hall, before undertaking further study in Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Leipzig and Paris. On returning to Edinburgh in 1865, he became assistant to the professor of medicine, and in 1869 was appointed Professor of Physiology at King's College London. He returned to Edinburgh in 1874 as Professor of Physiology and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1876. He died in Edinburgh in 1899.

William Allan Jamieson was born at Dreghorn in Ayrshire, where his father was parish minister, and educated at Irvine Academy. After attending arts classes at the University of Glasgow, he emigrated to Queensland, Australia, to work on a sheep farm with relatives. He graduated in medicine at Edinburgh in 1863 as first man of his year. After nine years in general practice at Berwick-on-Tweed, he returned to Edinburgh and established a practice in Rutland Street.