S.D. Slater

This account concerns Alfred Ernest Maylard, 1855-1947, a surgeon of exceptional ability and a man with extraordinary energy and drive. He was appointed to the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow, when it opened in 1890 and made an outstanding clinical and academic contribution, particularly in abdominal surgery. His organisational talents were remarkable and manifest in his influence not just upon the hospital's developments but also upon Glasgow's medical life in general. In his spare time he was a keen mountaineer and was the driving force behind the formation of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1889 and its first secretary and later president. He was a prolific writer in all these fields, his eminence as scientific surgeon being recognised by election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and his contribution to mountaineering by the vice-presidency of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.