John Macnaught was born in 1793 and obtained his MD from King's College Aberdeen in 1815, also becoming a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. That year he moved to Jamaica, where he practised for twenty-five years. In 1838 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. After returning to the UK he practised in Liverpool, serving as Vice-President and later President of the Liverpool Medical Institution. He was Honorary Physician to the Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind for twenty-five years and practised medicine for sixty-five years. He died in London in 1883 aged ninety.

James Lynch O'Connor graduated MD from Aberdeen on 24 November 1820. He published papers including 'Medical Observations upon a form of dysentery known in the island of Trinidad by the name of bische or biecho' in 1837. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1838.

John Tomlinson Ingleby was born circa 1795 and received his MD from Heidelberg on 28 May 1838. He began practising medicine in Birmingham in 1816 and became an early specialist in obstetrics, lecturing on midwifery at Queen's College, Birmingham. Ingleby served as President of the Medical Benevolent Society in 1836 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 6 November 1838. He died in 1845 and the Ingleby Lectures were later established in his memory.

Robert George Holland received his MD from Erlangen in 1838 and became a Fellow of the College in the same year.

Patrick Charles was born in 1803. He received his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1828, writing his dissertation on the cholera epidemic. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1833.

William Glover received his MD from the University of St Andrews on 17 August 1818 and became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh the same year. On 6 August 1833 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Glover held posts including house surgeon to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, house surgeon to the London Lock Hospital and private physician to Lord Heytesbury while the latter served as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain.

William Thomson was born in Edinburgh in 1802. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh extramural medical school and the University of Glasgow, and undertook further study in France from 1822 to 1824. In 1826 he was appointed surgeon to the New Town Dispensary and began lecturing in medicine. He received his MD from Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1831. Thomson served as Physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh before becoming Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He died in Edinburgh in 1852.

John Wilson Anderson studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh during 1819 to 1820 and graduated MD in 1820. He resumed his studies in 1823 and completed further years from 1825 to 1826. In 1823 Anderson acted as lecture assistant to Dr Thomas Hope and led some of the earliest practical chemistry classes at the University of Edinburgh.

John Smith was apprenticed at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1818 and studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1820 to 1823. In 1823 he entered the Indian Medical Service and graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh. Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 12 October 1833.

James Patterson was born in Magherally, County Down, the son of a minister. He received his MD from the University of Edinburgh on 12 July 1832 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 February 1834. In 1863 Patterson became the second President of the Ulster Medical Society.