Arthur Gamgee was born in Florence in 1841. He studied physics at the University of Edinburgh before graduating MD there in 1862. He subsequently became House Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Between 1863 and 1869 he acted as assistant to the Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh, while also lecturing at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and serving as Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. In 1873 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at Manchester. He resigned this position in 1885 and in 1887 became Assistant Physician at St George's Hospital, London. He died in Paris in 1909.

Francis Kennedy Dickson was born circa 1843. He became a Licentiate of the College in 1864 and a Fellow in 1873. He spent his professional life in Derbyshire as both a medical practitioner and public servant, serving as a Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Licensing Committee. He succeeded his father as proprietor and Resident Physician of Wye House Asylum, Buxton, which he ran for over thirty years. He also acted as Senior Consulting Physician to the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton, and as Honorary Acting Medical Officer to the Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity from 1865 to 1878. He died at Buxton on 2 February 1907.

Thomas Stretch Dowse obtained his MD from Aberdeen in 1868, having trained at St George's and Charing Cross Hospitals, London. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1873. He held several posts in London, including Physician and Medical Officer at Charing Cross, House Surgeon at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and Medical Officer at the Central London Sick Asylum, Highgate. His work 'On brain and nerve exhaustion and on the exhaustions of influenza' went through several editions. His other publications include 'On the composition of chlorodyne, as judged by its physiological action', published in the Journal of Pharmacology in 1869 to 1870, and 'On caries of atlas and axis', published in the Medical Times and Gazette in 1871.

James Cumming obtained his MA from Edinburgh in 1868 and his MD in 1871, for which he was awarded a gold medal for his thesis on antiseptic surgery. He studied in Berlin and Vienna before returning to Edinburgh to serve as Medical Officer to the New Town Dispensary. He was appointed Extra Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and elected Ordinary Physician in March 1878. His father was also a physician and he assisted in his father's practice until his death on 9 May 1879.

James Bell Pettigrew was born on 26 May 1832 in Lanarkshire, the son of Robert Pettigrew and Mary Bell. He was educated in Airdrie and at the University of Glasgow, where he studied arts from 1850 to 1855. He moved to Edinburgh in 1856 to study medicine and was awarded a gold medal in 1858 to 1859 for the best treatise on anatomy. This work led to his appointment as Croonian Lecturer at the Royal Society of London in 1860. In 1861 he became House Surgeon to James Syme at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1862 he was appointed Assistant in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a position he held until 1867. In 1877 he was elected by the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews to represent them on the General Medical Council. Following legislative reform in 1886, he represented St Andrews alone. He married Elsie, second daughter of Sir William Gray, in 1890. The marriage was childless. He died at his home in St Andrews on 30 January 1908.

Thomas Smith Clouston was born in Orkney and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated MD with a gold medal in 1861 for a thesis on the nervous system of the lobster. His first post was as Assistant to Dr Skae at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. At the age of twenty two he was appointed Superintendent of the Westmorland Asylum, Carlisle.

Samuel Cartwright Reed became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London in 1859 and obtained his MD from St Andrews in 1862. He practised in London as Physician to the Western City Dispensary and in 1870 took over the management of Munster House Asylum, Fulham. He was succeeded there in 1873 by George Fielding Blandford. His publications include 'The study of lunacy and the care of lunatics' and 'Hints to volunteer surgeons', both published in 1872. He also wrote extensively on sanitation and public health and obtained patents for a drain trap and a stretcher bedstead for field hospitals and ambulances.

Alexander James Sinclair was born circa 1848 and studied in Edinburgh, graduating MD in 1872. He worked as a Demonstrator of Anatomy at Surgeons' Hall before moving to Penrith later that year, having previously served there as assistant to Dr Taylor. In Edinburgh he served as Medical Officer to the City Parish and Consulting Physician to the City Poorhouse at Craiglockhart. He became a Fellow of the College in 1874 and had previously acted for several years as Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology. He was active in many Edinburgh medical and scientific societies and was Vice President of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society at the time of his death on 23 February 1889.

Peter Alexander Young was born in Australia to Scottish parents and moved to Edinburgh to study medicine, graduating MD in 1870. He studied in Vienna and served as assistant to the Badischer Frauenverein in Heidelberg during the Franco Prussian War. He was House Surgeon at Perth Infirmary before returning to Edinburgh to establish a practice, first in Portobello and later in the city. He became a Fellow of the College in 1874 and served as Treasurer from 1887 to 1908, resigning due to ill health. He died in Bournemouth on 25 June 1909.

John Janet Kirk Duncanson was born circa 1846 near Dunfermline. He initially trained as an engineer before turning to medicine. He obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1871, having trained in Heidelberg, where he specialised in gynaecology, and Vienna, where he developed an interest in otology. He played a central role in the establishment of the Ear Department of the Eye, Ear and Throat Infirmary in Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, where he served as surgeon for over thirty years. He became a Fellow of the College in 1874 and served in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, attaining the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel. He died at Gullane on 12 March 1913.