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Edward G. Archer was a Lecturer in Education at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow.

Following posts with Manchester Public Libraries and the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Lawrence Ardern was librarian at the Scottish College of Commerce, 1962-1964, and deputy librarian at the University of Strathclyde, 1964-1972. He was an expert in the field of micrographics. Following his retirement, he opened a bookshop in Kirkcudbright.

William Armitage was a student at the Royal College of Science and Technology and later lecturer in operational analysis and accounting at the University of Strathclyde.

John Armour was born on 29 July 1900 in Glasgow, to Andrew James Raeburn Armour and Annie Stevenson Armour, neé Inglis. His father was a lithographic artist, and the family, including John's two younger sisters, Janet and Jean, and younger brother, James, lived in the Partick area of the city.

In 1912, John was admitted to Allan Glen's School, where, in session 1917-1918, he came top of Form 6 to be named Dux of the School. Both he and his younger sister, Janet Foote Armour, then went on to study chemistry at the Royal Technical College of Glasgow (RTC). John qualified for the RTC's Associateship in Chemistry in 1923, gaining the degree of BSc in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow in the same year (at that time, the RTC was affiliated to the University of Glasgow and students aiming for a pure science or engineering degree could take classes at both institutions). Whilst studying, he also served as a District Cubmaster in the Boy Scouts Association, gaining his Akela Badge in 1923.

John Armour subsequently worked in industry, as a chemist in the Print Works at Graham's Trading Company, Braço de Prata, near Lisbon, Portugal. He then moved to England, where he was employed in the Research Department of the Calico Printers' Association in Manchester. He latterly lived in Bury, Lancashire, with his wife and son. He reportedly had a wicked, dry sense of intellectual humour; an interest in the use of forensic methods to solve crimes, and a love of dahlias, to which he devoted his garden.

Dr Linda Armstrong is a retired speech and language therapist whose varied career included clinical work as well as research and teaching. She was a member of RCSLT for more than 30 years. She has a long standing collaboration with Jois Stansfield on the history of speech therapy.

Ronnie Armstrong was lecturer in education at Jordanhill College for a short period.

Thomas Atkinson was a radical bookseller in Glasgow and Lecturer in Craniology at Anderson's Institution. By his will, he founded Atkinson's Institution 'for the instruction of artisans and all members of the middle classes in literature and languages'.

Costandi (known as Costi) Audeh was born in 1932 in Nazareth, Palestine and educated at the Missionary Societies' Bishop Gobat School in Jerusalem. In 1948, he, like his father and brother before him, enrolled as a medical student at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. However, it soon became apparent that his true interest was not medicine but chemistry, and after passing the required entrance examination, he was accepted onto the four-year BSc course in Applied Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1951. Under an affiliation scheme between the University and the Royal Technical College (RTC), now the University of Strathclyde, students aiming for a degree in pure science or engineering could choose to take many of their required classes at the RTC. Costi did so, attending the RTC as a matriculated University student and graduating in 1955. He also took additional classes at the RTC in order to qualify for its Associateship (ARTC) in Applied Chemistry that same year. He went on to work for the British Rubber Producers' Research Association in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, but after a few years he returned to the Middle East, attracted by the prospect of a career in the oil industry. In 1958 he became a Refinery Chemist with the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), where he found another eight alumni of the University of Glasgow and the RTC amongst the employees, and where he developed expertise in the evaluation of crude oil. In 1962, Costi married Margaret Clark, a school teacher from Hull , who was also employed by KOC. Costi was subsequently transferred from KOC to Gulf Oil Corporation’s Gulf Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), and the Audehs departed for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, where Costi was responsible for producing a handbook about all aspects of Kuwait Crude Oil and its derivative products. In 1966, he secured educational leave of absence to allow himself, Margaret and their two young sons to return to the United Kingdom, where he had been accepted onto the D.Phil. research programme in Physical Organic Chemistry at the University of York. Costi graduated in October 1970, and in 1971 took up a position in the Technology Department of the Mobil Research and Development Corporation (MRDC). There he developed generalised algorithms to predict the properties of various commercially obtained refinery products based on the properties of small distillate fractions obtained from crude oil by distillation in the laboratory. The algorithms were then converted to computer programs, known as ‘ASA Programs’. In 1974 he transferred from the Technology Department to the Central Research Division, later renamed the Central Research Laboratory (CRL) of MRDC, where he studied the chemistry and oxidative stability of petroleum based lubricating oil. Within the CRL, collaboration and the exchange of idea between researchers and staff from different departments was both facilitated and encouraged, and Costi benefitted from this, collaborating with various staff members from different areas of the MRDC to produce proposed solutions. Mobil saw sufficient potential in these proposed solutions to make them the subjects of numerous national and international patent applications, lodged before Costi's retirement from the corporation in 1993.

James Auld was a student at the Glasgow Provincial Training College from 1906 to 1909.