Mitchell's familiarity with the Scottish clan system made him more comfortable with African tribal issues than was the case with his English contemporaries.

Many of his English contemporaries rated Hobbs superior to Bradman, often regarded as the greatest batsman in the history of cricket, on difficult pitches.

Smith was compared with his English contemporaries Stanley Matthews and Tom Finney, but he did not appear to have a "big-match temperament".

Unlike their English contemporaries, Scottish students were not required to take a religious oath.

It is probable that he had more scientific knowledge than any of his English contemporaries and opponents.

Smart was highly rated as a composer by his English contemporaries, but is now remembered only by a few organists and choral singers.

Stylistically, his music is more homophonic than much of the music by his English contemporaries, who still preferred a polyphonic idiom.

In contrast, their English contemporaries displayed a lack of invention near negligent in proportion.

Like his English contemporaries generally, Locke was probably also unaware of the authorship of the work, commonly ascribed at the time to John Hales.