Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston was born on June 21, 1862, in St. Michaels, Oxfordshire, England.

He was a British physician. He was educated at Marlborough College, St. John's College, and Cambridge University. After clinical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, he received his M.B. (1888) and M.D. (1892) degrees from Cambridge University. He worked as a physician at St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London, from 1891 to 1919. During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), he served with the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in Pretoria. During World War I, he was a consulting surgeon and surgeon rear-admiral with the Royal Navy. Rollestone gave the 1895 Goulstonian Lectures, the 1919 Lumleian Lectures, and the 1928 Harveian Oration. He served as President of the London Medical Society in 1904, the Royal Society of Medicine (1918-1920) and the Royal College of Physicians (1922-1925). He chaired the Rolleston Committee formed in 1924. From 1923 to 1932, he was Physician-in-Ordinary to King George V. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1918, created a baronet, of Upper Brook Street in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of London, in June 1925 and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1929. Rolleston was President of the Eugenics Society from 1933 to 1935. In 1925, he was appointed the Regius Professor of Physics (Cambridge) and remained in this position until he retired in 1932. In 1926, he became President of the Medical Society of London. He contributed to the revised and updated version of Encyclopedia Britannica ("Medicine, General"). A small collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

In 1894, he married Lizette Eila Harriet Ogilvy (1869–1949). He died on September 23, 1944, in Haslemere, Surrey, England.

John Rolfe was a friend of Sarah Barker. He visited New England in 1755.

Charles Roland was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1958 and practiced family medicine in Ontario. A prolific writer and medical educator, he served as Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine at McMaster University from 1977 to 1999 when he retired as Hannah Professor Emeritus. He is a member of the Board of Curators of the Osler Library.

Caleb Wyand Geeting Rohrer was born on November 20, 1873, at Eakle's Mill, Washington County, Maryland.

He was a physician and author recognized for his contributions to medical research, particularly in the areas of the prostate gland and cancer. He completed his early education at Eakle's Mill and Keedysville schools before earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the Shenandoah Institute of Virginia. He subsequently graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore and obtained both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Wesleyan University of Illinois. Following a three-year internship at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Dr. Rohrer served as an assistant bacteriologist with the Maryland Department of Health in 1902. He later advanced to the positions of assistant state health officer and chief of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases. In addition to his professional achievements, Dr. Rohrer was an active member of several medical organizations and authored multiple medical texts, including “A Contribution to the Comparative Anatomy of the Prostate Gland.” He was an avid reader with a particular appreciation for poetry, and he also composed his own verses.

In 1908, he married Emma Marie Albrecht Rohrer (1867–1945). He died on July 21, 1952, in Baltimore, Maryland.