Robert Cross trained at the University of Edinburgh, University College London and the University of Heidelberg, obtaining his MD from Edinburgh in 1854. He also completed residence and examinations for an MD at Heidelberg in 1833. He worked as a physician for several organisations, including the Brewer's Court Dispensary, the Prudential Life Assurance Company and the Ladies National Benevolent Institution for Female Idiots, Chiswick. His publications include 'Observations on the prevention, nature and treatment of Asiatic cholera' (1848) and 'Physiology of human nature' (1851).

Henry Kingsley received his MD from Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1854 and became a Fellow of the College in 1858 and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1859. He spent much of his life in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he worked as a physician at the Stratford-upon-Avon Infirmary and served as Mayor from 1867 to 1869.

John Cocker trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1827. After moving to Blackpool in 1828, he married Jane Banks, daughter of Henry Banks, known as the 'Father of Blackpool'. In 1837 he opened the town's first assembly rooms, the Victoria Promenade. He received his MD from Erlangen in 1845 and worked as a medical referee for insurers and prudential societies. Cocker was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London and published on gynaecological topics, including 'On diseases of the uterus', in The Lancet and the Medical and Surgical Journal. He died in Blackpool in 1872.

Thomas Hayes Jackson was born in 1810 and trained at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, London. He obtained his MD from Erlangen in 1854 and practised medicine in Darlington. He was active in local societies, including the Newcastle and Gateshead Pathological Society, and became Senior Consulting Surgeon at Darlington Hospital. He published widely on surgery and anaesthesia and on miners' health, including 'Diseases of miners of Arkendale and Swaledale' in the British Medical Journal. He died in Darlington in 1869.

Alexander MacNamee Walker obtained his Masters in Surgery in 1836 and became a Licentiate in Midwifery. He later received MD degrees from Cleveland, USA, in 1853 and from Giessen in 1856, becoming a Fellow of the College in 1858. He spent much of his life in Tunbridge Wells, where he worked as physician to the Parade Dispensary. He was a Fellow of the Anthropological Society of London and published lectures on the poems and songs of Robert Burns in 1858 and 1860.

William Eeles Taylor received his medical degree from the University of St Andrews on 6 May 1845. He completed further qualifications in London and, in 1842, entered a partnership in Pulborough which continued until his partner's death in 1860. Taylor purchased land and the Old Glebe Schoolhouse in Pulborough with the intention of establishing a cottage hospital for 'ten aged and infirm poor of the district'. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 November 1856 and died on 19 March 1882 in Sussex, aged 67.

William Kingsley received his medical degree from the University of St Andrews on 1 July 1845. He served for many years as medical director of the Fever Hospital and Dispensary in Roscrea, County Tipperary, and held licentiates in surgery and midwifery from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (1844). Kingsley became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 3 February 1857 and died in 1861.

Archibald William Pulteney-Pinkerton was born in Dollar in 1829 and educated at Dollar Academy. Nephew of William Pulteney-Allison, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1850 with a dissertation titled 'Observations on carcinomatous diseases of the stomach'. He served as physician to the New Town Dispensary, Edinburgh, and as resident physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and honorary secretary to the Parisian Medical Society, and published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal on 'Climate and consumption' (1857) and 'Forms of Crimean fever' (1857). He was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 August 1857 and delivered 'An introductory lecture on climate' at Surgeons' Hall on 28 May 1857.

Joseph Marcus Joseph received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow on 28 April 1852 and was one of only six Jewish medical graduates of the university between 1767 and 1859. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 August 1857 and was granted a diploma.

Charles Coates was born in Headingley near Leeds and educated at Leeds Grammar School. After junior appointments at Bradford Infirmary and Brompton Hospital, he studied at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, qualifying MD on 22 October 1856. He settled in Bath and became physician to the Royal Mineral Water Hospital, later senior governor, and was appointed consulting physician at the Royal United Hospitals, Bath. Coates was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 August 1857 and to the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1873. He published 'Case of arrest of development in which there was entire absence of vagina' (The Lancet, 1858) and served as physician to the Bath General Hospital and resident clinical assistant at the Brompton Consumption Hospital. He died in 1909 aged 83.