Oswald Hunter studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, gaining his MD in 1803. His dissertation was entitled 'De Imaginatione Morborum Causa ac Remedio'. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh the same year. In 1806 he joined the Indian Medical Service as an assistant surgeon and was promoted to surgeon in 1818. He died at Karnal, India, on 14 January 1820.
 

William Dick was born in 1760 and studied medicine in Aberdeen. He graduated on 1 March 1803, his proposers being Dr William Saunders and Dr William Babington of London. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1804. Dick worked in both Bengal and London and died in 1821.

William Franklin was born in London in 1763. He studied medicine in Aberdeen and was awarded his MD in 1795. Prior to that he became assistant surgeon in the British Army in 1787 and surgeon in the 15th Regiment of Foot in May 1790. In 1796 he became assistant inspector of hospitals and in 1800 was promoted to assistant inspector general, serving first in Egypt and then Malta. By 1802 he was inspector of hospitals, running the Lazaretto Hospital and overseeing medical services in Sicily. In 1804 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and in 1820 a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He achieved the rank of principal inspector general in 1810 and retired on 1 July 1833. He died later that year in London.

Robinson Foxley was the son of Thomas Foxley, proctor of the University and professor of moral philosophy at Brasenose College, Oxford. He studied at the University of St Andrews and received his MD in 1804. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1805. He practised medicine in Manchester from about 1779 and was senior surgeon to the Royal Manchester and Salford Volunteer Regiment. Foxley was known for always dressing in black and wearing spectacles, leading some to mistake him for a priest. He never married and died in Manchester on 8 November 1815.

John Gray studied medicine in Aberdeen, graduating in May 1805, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh the same year.

Samuel McDowell was born in 1768. He was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh between 1786 and 1787. He received his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1805 by examination and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh the same year. He was appointed physician at the County Monaghan Jail and Infirmary in Ireland, where he worked for forty years. He died in February 1845 aged 77.

Thomas Brown was born in 1778 in Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, the son of Rev Samuel Brown and Mary Smith. Between 1792 and 1803 he studied philosophy, law and medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met the philosopher Dugald Stewart. He received his MD in 1803 and briefly practised medicine in Edinburgh, though his passion lay with philosophy. Between 1808 and 1809 he substituted for Stewart as lecturer, and in 1810 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy alongside him. In 1815 Brown was elected a Member of the American Antiquarian Society and contributed to the 'Edinburgh Review'. His writings include 'Observations on the Zoonomia of Erasmus Darwin' (1798), 'Observations on the Nature and Tendency of the Doctrine of Mr Hume Concerning the Relation of Cause and Effect' (1804), and 'Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind' (1820). He died in London in 1820 and was buried in Kirkmabreck.

Alexander Mackenzie was the son of Kenneth McKenzie, a tutor from Kilcoy, and Janet Douglas. He studied humanities at the United College of St Salvator and St Leonard, University of St Andrews, where he received the Ramsay Bursary. He was also a medical student at the University of Edinburgh from 1785 to 1787. In 1788 he became assistant surgeon in the Indian Medical Service at Madras. He was promoted to surgeon in 1796 and senior surgeon in 1810 before retiring in 1815. He received his MD in 1803. After retiring he lived in Southampton until 1822, then bought Bursledon House, now part of the Southampton Hospital School. He died in London in 1842.

John Barclay was born in 1758 in Perthshire. He initially worked as a church minister and tutor before studying medicine in 1792. He was awarded an MD at the University of Edinburgh in 1796. Barclay then studied in London before returning to Edinburgh, where he delivered lectures on anatomy, first independently and later in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Barclay published widely on anatomy and chemistry. He died in 1826.

William Wightman was the son of Charles Wightman of Anstruther, a wealthy merchant and factor to the Earls of Kellie, and a slave-owner in Tobago. William was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh from 1769 to 1770 and received his MD in 1790 from the University of St Andrews. He practised medicine in Eyemouth, where he lived with his wife Ann Delisle of Dunbar. The couple eloped in 1782, and their marriage took place on 1 August 1782, witnessed by Alexander Nairne and Margaret Gillet. They had three children and later moved to Dunbar. One son, Charles, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1810. William died at Dunbar on 15 September 1816 aged 64.