Ebenezer Gairdner studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1815 to 1818. He qualified as an MD in 1819 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1820. He worked for a period as physician to the Royal Dispensary and published several journal papers, including 'Case of Purpura Haemorrhagica' in 1823.

Robert Graham was born in Stirling in 1786. He graduated at Edinburgh in 1808 and then studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London before settling in Glasgow. He became a physician to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1812 and was appointed the city's first professor of botany in 1818. In 1820 he became professor of botany and keeper of the king's garden in Edinburgh, overseeing the transfer of the garden from Leith Walk to Inverleith Row. In 1840 he was appointed President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Graham died in Perthshire in 1845.

Andrew Nicoll first matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 1809 and was awarded his MD on 12 September 1810. He entered the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1810 as a hospital mate and became an assistant surgeon in 1811. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 2 May 1815 and elected a Fellow on 7 November 1815. He returned to the University of Edinburgh to complete further study in 1818, and in the same year became a staff surgeon. He was promoted to the local rank of Deputy Inspector of Hospitals in Africa in 1820, where he died in 1823.

John Murray was born in 1778. He was awarded an MD from the University of St Andrews on 17 October 1814. Murray was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 1 November 1814 and elected a Fellow on 7 November 1815. He became a lecturer in natural philosophy, chemistry, materia medica and pharmacy at the University of Edinburgh. He was well known for publications including 'Elements of Chemistry' (1801), 'Elements of Materia Medica and Pharmacy' (1804) and 'A System of Chemistry' (1809). He died at his house in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, on 22 July 1820.

George Drysdale was born in 1781. He became a surgeon in the Royal Navy on 6 December 1810. He was placed on half pay in 1815, after which he obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 1 June 1815. Drysdale was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 15 July 1815 and a Fellow on 7 November 1815. He practised in South Kensington, London, until his retirement in 1838. He died in Brighton on 20 December 1848.

Henry Evans Holder III was born in Barbados in 1780, the son of the Reverend Henry Evans Holder II, a member of a Barbadian plantation family. He received his early medical education in Barbados before travelling to Britain. He obtained an MD from the University of St Andrews on 24 August 1801 and later from the University of Edinburgh in 1816. Holder was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 7 November 1815 and elected a Fellow on 6 February 1816. He inherited Joe's River plantation in Saint Joseph, Barbados, which he later sold. He practised as a physician at Durham Infirmary and died in Durham on 18 February 1817.

William Pym was born in January 1772. He began medical studies in 1788 but joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving as a regimental mate in 1792 and as a surgeon in the West Indies in 1794. During the occupation of Martinique he witnessed outbreaks of yellow fever and later published 'Observations upon Bulam Fever' (1815), the first treatise on the disease, in which he noted the role of climate and the development of immunity following survival. He obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 2 April 1799. Pym was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 6 February 1816 and a Fellow on 7 May 1816. He was promoted to Superintendent General of Quarantine in 1826 and sent to Gibraltar in 1828 to manage a yellow fever outbreak. He was knighted by William IV in 1830 and 1831. He retired on half pay in 1816 and died at Harley Street, London, on 18 March 1861.

David Aird obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh on 12 September 1805. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 6 February 1816 and elected a Fellow on 7 May 1816. He appears to have practised in Antigua thereafter, although the nature of his work is unclear.

Isaac Wilson was born in 1757, the son of John Wilson of Drumrusk, Armagh. He obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 23 December 1796. He was appointed Physician of the Fleet in the Royal Navy on 17 November 1805. Wilson was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 7 May 1816 and a Fellow on 6 August 1816. In 1816 he also became Physician to the Naval Hospital at Plymouth. He served as domestic physician to the Duke and Duchess of Kent and officiated at the birth of Queen Victoria on 24 May 1819. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1831 and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1834. He was knighted in 1838, the first knighthood conferred by Queen Victoria. He retired in 1840 as Director and Senior Physician of Haslar Naval Hospital and died at Bognor on 12 December 1844.

David James Hamilton Dickson obtained his MD from King's College of the University of Aberdeen on 18 August 1806. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 7 May 1816 and elected a Fellow on 6 August 1816.