Thomas Grainger Stewart was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh High School. He obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1858 and undertook postgraduate study in Berlin, Prague and Vienna before becoming House Physician to Professor Laycock at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Early in his career he was appointed Lecturer on Materia Medica in the extramural school. On his appointment as Pathologist to the Royal Infirmary he became Lecturer on Pathology in place of Materia Medica.

George Altham received his MD in Paris in 1842. He worked as house surgeon and house physician at the Civil Hospital, Paris, and later became Honorary Physician to the Preston Dispensary. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1858 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in the same year.

George Harley was born in East Lothian in 1829 and graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1850. After working at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, he studied in Paris and then in Germany and Austria, undertaking research in medicine and chemistry. In 1855 he was appointed lecturer in practical physiology and histology at University College London. He supported Elizabeth Garrett in her medical training and died in London in 1896.

Sir William Overend Priestley was born in 1829 and educated at King's College London and in Paris. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1853 and settled in London, specialising in gynaecology. He was appointed lecturer in midwifery at the Middlesex Hospital in 1858 and professor of midwifery at King's College London in 1862. He later served as an examiner in midwifery for several institutions and was elected MP for the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews in 1896. He died in London in 1900.

John Maule Sutton was born in 1829, a great-grandson of Daniel Sutton, pioneer of smallpox inoculation. He studied at Queen's College Birmingham and St Thomas's Hospital, graduating MD from St Andrews in 1853. He became physician to Queen's Hospital Birmingham in 1863 and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Queen's College. He founded the Westhulme Hospital for Infectious Diseases in 1877 and served as mayor of Tenby on three occasions. He died on 20 January 1885.

John Shand was born in 1823 and studied in Edinburgh, London, Paris and Heidelberg, graduating MD from Edinburgh in 1844. He worked at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as house surgeon and assistant pathologist and later as house surgeon at the Lock Hospital. He established practice in Kirkcudbright but, after illness, returned to Edinburgh, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1858. He died at 34 Albany Street, Edinburgh, in 1895.

Keats Robinson Risk was born in 1816 and studied at the Meath and Richmond Hospitals, Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He graduated MD from Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1851, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1858 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1856. He served as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Naval Schools, Greenwich, and later practised in Blackpool, where he died on 28 May 1873.

James Joseph Cregeen studied at St Bartholomew's and Charing Cross Hospitals, London, and graduated MD from the University of St Andrews in 1853. He became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London in 1851 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1858. He invented an improved tooth forceps and exhibited it in 1859, published on the treatment of vegetable fibre, and worked as a medical referee for life assurance societies in Rotherhithe and Deptford.

John Hayball Paul was born on the Isle of Wight in 1806 and apprenticed in London before training at Westminster and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He obtained his MD from St Andrews in 1854 and began work at Camberwell House Asylum in 1846, eventually becoming Medical Superintendent. He co-founded the Royal National Hospital for Consumption at Ventnor and was a founder and long-serving treasurer of the Medico-Psychological Association. He died on 29 January 1899.

Thomas Beath Christie trained at the London Hospital and received his MD from St Andrews in 1854. He worked at Pembroke House, Hackney, before becoming Medical Superintendent of the North Riding Asylum, Clifton, near York, and later Chief Medical Officer and Superintendent of the Royal India Asylum, Ealing. In 1873 he became Surgeon-Major of the 5th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, and in 1877 was appointed CIE. He died in Ealing on 15 January 1892.