John Godfrey became a Licentiate in 1833 and a Fellow in 1854 of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and obtained his MD from St Andrews in 1854. He became a Fellow of the College in 1858. Godfrey served as a surgeon aboard HMS Diligence in 1837 and in the Spanish and Portuguese Service, and later worked as assistant surgeon at St George's and St Giles's Infirmary and Cholera Hospital.

William Frederick Hutcheson Ramsay trained in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paris and Berlin, obtaining his MD from Glasgow in 1848. He became a Fellow of the College in 1859 and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London the same year. Ramsay worked as a physician at the Scott Hospital and contributed to journals including the Medical and Chirurgical Review, the Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science and the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. He died in London in 1892.

John Drummond McGavin obtained his MD from the University of Glasgow in 1844 and undertook further study in Berlin, Paris and Vienna. He became a Non-Resident Fellow of the College in 1859, as he was practising in France at the time.

James Hope Watson obtained his MD from Jena in 1840 and became a Fellow of the College in 1859. He died in Tranent, Edinburgh, on 23 November 1870.

George Mathieson Ogilvie was born in Secunderabad, India, on 28 December 1818, the son of Major Ogilvie of the Madras Infantry. He received his MD from St Andrews in 1840 and was appointed Assistant Surgeon at the European General Hospital, Bombay in 1841. He served in a variety of posts in India, including in charge of the jails and dispensaries of Oude, and was Garrison Sanitary Commissioner during the siege of Lucknow in 1857. For his service he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was promoted Surgeon Major in 1861 and died suddenly at Suez on 26 October 1861.

John Challice was born in Horsham, Sussex, in 1815 and obtained his MD from King's College, Aberdeen, in 1850. In 1856 he became Medical Officer of Health for Bermondsey, a post he held until his death. He wrote extensively on public health and cholera, publishing works including 'Should the cholera come, what ought to be done?' (1848) and 'How to avoid the cholera' (1849). He married the author Annie Emma Armstrong in 1841 and died in London in 1863.

Robert Bowman obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1852 after studying at University College London from 1848 to 1850. He specialised in midwifery and studied and worked throughout continental Europe. While in Paris he was elected President of the Parisian Medical Society. He became a Fellow of the College in 1860.

George William Balfour was born in Sorn, Ayrshire. He initially intended to emigrate to Australia and qualified as a veterinary surgeon in preparation. Turning instead to medicine, he became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and obtained his MD from St Andrews. After further study in Vienna he commenced medical practice in Cramond, near Edinburgh.

James Struthers was born in Brucefield, near Dunfermline, in 1821, the eldest of three sons of Alexander Struthers. Both of his brothers, Alexander and John, also entered the medical profession. He received his MD from Edinburgh in 1848 and, following graduation, worked as a demonstrator of anatomy at the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine and at the Royal Infirmary during the typhus and cholera epidemics of 1847-1848. In 1849 he took over a practice in Leith from Dr Bruce, who died shortly thereafter. Struthers played a significant role in the development of Leith Hospital, serving as Acting Medical Officer from 1850 to 1876, later becoming Consulting Physician and, in 1890, President of the hospital. He died at home in Edinburgh on 6 June 1891.

Robert Peel Ritchie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the son of a civil engineer and sometime city magistrate. He received his MD from Edinburgh in 1856 and, after graduation, worked as Resident Physician at Bethnal House Asylum, London. Ritchie returned to Edinburgh in 1861 and worked as Obstetrical Physician at the Old Town Dispensary, eventually joining its board of management. He was elected Physician, and later Consulting Physician, to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. An active member of the College, he served as Treasurer from 1882 to 1887 and as President from 1887 to 1889. In 1899 he published 'The Early Days of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh'. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a member of numerous scientific societies and clubs. He died in Edinburgh in 1902.