Sir James Weir French was the Chairman of Barr and Stroud, Ltd, Engineers and Instrument Makers and Optical Glass Manufacturers. He was knighted in 1941 and was Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Royal Technical College from 1946 - 1950.
David Rowan was president of Glasgow Mechanics Institution, 1877-1886.
Andrew Fergus was chairman of Anderson's College from 1883 to 1885.
Sir William Robertson Copland was chairman of Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College from 1897 to 1907.
Wilson was professor of inorganic chemistry from 1919 to 1920, professor of organic chemistry, 1920 to 1934 and professor of chemistry from 1934 to 1944 at the Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow.
Known to his family as 'Scott', William Sutherland Milligan was born to Joseph and Isabella Milligan on 25 February 1897 in Glasgow, Scotland. He attended Eastbank Higher Grade Public School in Shettleston, where he gained the Intermediate Certificate in 1912. He progressed to evening classes in Business Methods Course I, Book-Keeping and Accounting Course II, and Commercial Arithmetic Course II at the Glasgow Athenaeum Commercial College in session 1913-1914. His studies were then interrupted by the First World War, during which he served as an officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After the war, Milligan returned to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College (as it was known from 1915), where he attended special day classes in Income Tax and Book-Keeping Course III during the summer of 1919. He subsequently emigrated to the United States of America, arriving in New York on the vessel 'Cedric' on 26 December 1922. There he worked as an accountant, and met his future wife, Mildred Amelia McLaughlin, when he went to audit the books of the power plant owned by her father. The couple married in Austin, Texas on 8 October 1923 and set up home in Kansas City, Missouri. Soon afterwards, in September 1924, Milligan earned the status of CPA [Certified Public Accountant]. In 1937, his employers transferred him to Europe, and he and his wife lived successively in Holland, Finland and in Copenhagen, Denmark. When Copenhagen was invaded during World War II, the Milligans left for London, where they remained for the duration of the war. William worked for a British Government rubber control agency which distributed rubber among the Allies, while Mildred volunteered with the Red Cross and drove ambulances. The couple returned to Austin, Texas in 1948, and two years later William was appointed Treasurer of the Highfield Estate in Falmouth, Massachussetts, owned by his brother-in-law. William Milligan died on 8 January 1959 and is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. There is also a headstone for him in Austin, Texas.