William Henry Lowe was born in 1814 and received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1840. He served as resident physician at the Saughton Hall Institute for the Insane and later practised privately in Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Lowe published on jaundice and bile pathology, became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1839 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 November 1846. He was President of the College in 1873 and died on 10 August 1900.

Alfred Crabb received his medical degree from the University of St Andrews on 5 May 1846. He served as Admiralty Medical Officer to the Coastguard and Naval Reserve, medical officer of health for the rural district of Great Canford and Kinson and surgeon to several local institutions. His publications focused on infant disease, brain development and the effects of opium. Crabb became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 7 November 1846 and died in Poole on 17 February 1875.

John Ferguson received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 1 June 1815 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 2 February 1847.

William Robertson was born on 8 January 1818 at 28 Albany Street, Edinburgh, the son of George Robertson, Keeper of the Records at Register House. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1839 and served as physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, medical officer to the Edinburgh New Town Dispensary and to the Scottish Widows Fund. In 1854 he volunteered medical service during the Crimean War at Renkioi Hospital. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1860 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 7 February 1843.

Andrew Halliday Douglas was born in 1819 and passed his professional examinations in 1839 but was not permitted to graduate until he reached the age of twenty-one. He received his MD from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1840. By the age of nineteen he was acting as a fellow physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Douglas was a founder of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society and served as its Vice-President. His publications include the first statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 and a paper on the use of Indian hemp in cholera. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 7 February 1843 and died shortly after his eighty-ninth birthday.

John Graham Macdonald Burt was born in Edinburgh in 1809. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and travelled in Europe, receiving his MD from the University of Giessen in 1826. Burt practised privately in Edinburgh and served as consulting physician to the North British Insurance Company and Surgeon in Scotland to King William IV. His most notable publication was 'Illustrations on Surgical Anatomy' (1831). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1843 and served as its President from 1863 to 1865. He died in 1868.

William Hall-Ryott was born in Newcastle, Northumberland, in 1817. He received his medical degree from the University of Erlangen on 10 January 1842. Hall-Ryott married Anne Richardson and had sixteen children. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 2 May 1843 and later a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1853. He died in Thirsk, Yorkshire, on 8 November 1880.

William Macleod received his medical degree from the University of St Andrews on 2 May 1843. From 1846 he served as resident physician at Ben Rhydding Hydropathic Hospital in Yorkshire, applying contemporary theories of nutrition to hydropathic treatment. His publications include observations on blood corpuscle development in the chick and 'Hydrotherapeutics, or the Water Cure' (1855). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 1 August 1843.

Alexander Jackson received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1838. He served as physician to the New Town Dispensary in Edinburgh and to the Drummond Street Surgical Hospital. Jackson became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 7 November 1843.

Theodore Francis Wood received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1843 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 7 November 1843.