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Photograph of Geoffrey B Fleming.

Geoffrey Fleming graduated from the University of Cambridge BC in 1908, MB in 1910 and MD in 1914. Fleming worked as House Physician at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and the Glasgow Fever Hospitals. He also worked as Dispensary Physician at the Western Infirmary. After the First World War, where he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Fleming became Assistant Physician and later Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. Upon his retiral he became Consulting Physician to this hospital. In 1924 he was appointed Professor of Medical Paediatrics at the University of Glasgow.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1926 and was president from 1946 to 1948.

Photograph of Robert M Buchanan.

Robert MacNeil Buchanan graduated MB, CM from the University of Glasgow in 1888 and became a Fellow of the then Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1895. He was assistant to Joseph Coats, chair of Pathology at Glasgow, and ultimately went to Europe after he graduated to undertake further studies in pathology and bacteriology. He became the first Lecturer in Bacteriology at the University of Glasgow and First Assistant to the Professor of Pathology in 1892. He also held the position of Chair of Medical Jurispudence at Anderson's Medical College.

Buchanan was president of the College from 1925 to 1927.

Photograph of Archibald Young.

Archibald Young qualified MB,CM from the University of Glasgow in 1895 after which he spent time in Europe continuing his studies. After returning to Glasgow he worked under great mentors, including Joseph Coats and Sir William Macewen. He spent much of his career working at the Western Infirmary, gradually working his way up the surgical posts from Extra Dispensary Surgeon in 1903 to Visiting Surgery to the Infirmary in 1917.

He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1913 and was made Professor of Surgery at Anderson College. Young was Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow from 1924–1939 and President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1935 to 1937.

Professor Young was president of the College from 1935 to 1937.

Photograph of Professor John Munro Kerr.

John Munro Kerr graduated from the University of Glasgow MB CM in 1890 and began specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was made Professorial Assistant to Murdoch Cameron, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow, in 1894. This involved working at the University of Glasgow and on the wards of the Royal Maternity Hospital and the Glasgow Western Infirmary. He was made Visiting Surgeon at the Maternity Hospital in 1900.

Munro Kerr was elected to the chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Anderson College in 1910, then taking Muirhead chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow in 1911. His Assistant at this time was Louise McIlroy.

Munro Kerr was president of the College from 1933 to 1935.

Black and white photograph of John Glasiter.

Dr John Glaister graduated MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1879 and immediately pursued a career in Forensic Medicine and Public Health. In 1881 he began working at the medical school of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary teaching Forensic Medicine. He then moved in 1888 to St Mungo's College where he became Professor of Forensic Medicine. He held this position until 1898, moving to the University of Glasgow to become the Chair of Forensic Medicine and Public Health.

Glaister was a Fellow of the College and was president from 1907 to 1909.

Photograph of Sir Charles Ballance and Harvey Cushing at an Honorary Degree Ceremony at the University of Glasgow.

James Jeffray graduated MA in Sciences from the University of Glasgow in 1778, then going on to graduate MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1786. From 1790 he was Professor of Anatomy and Botany at the University of Glasgow. He held these posts until his death in 1848. This is one of the longest held professorships in Scotland's history.Despite this, he is best remembered for his participation in an experimental dissection case in 1818. Assisted by Andrew Ure, a physician who was a member of the Faculty and Professor at Anderson University, Jeffray carried out a dissection on the body of executed murderer Matthew Clydesdale. Clydesdale had been found guilty of murder and was hanged for his crime. Under the Murder Act of 1751, academics could only perform dissections on the bodies of those executed as a result of being guilty of murder. Jeffray and Ure dissected Clydesdale's body, but also passed electric currents through the body to observe the workings of the nervous system. This experiment enabled parts of Clydesdale's body to be "reanimated". This experiment brings into question the ethics of anatomical experiments and consent. Jeffray was President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1793 to 1795.