Ernest Maylard
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Alfred Ernest Maylard FRSE PRCPSG FSGS (1855–1947) was born in Northfleet, Kent, England but is known as a Scottish surgeon and expert in abdominal surgery who served as president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He was the eldest son of Alfred Martin Maylard, a respected London merchant and Ellen Mira French Maylard. A keen mountaineer, he was also co-founder (with William Naismith) of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1889.{{cite journal| pmid=8720774 | doi=10.1177/003693309403900312 | volume=39 | title=Alfred Ernest Maylard, 1855-1947: Glasgow surgeon extraordinaire | year=1994 | journal=Scott Med J | pages=86–90 | last1 = Slater | first1 = SD| issue=3 | s2cid=21365098 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.smc.org.uk/Gallery/SMC%20Pioneers/AEM.php |title=Scottish Mountaineering Club |access-date=2017-09-02 |archive-date=2015-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618222104/http://www.smc.org.uk/Gallery/SMC%20Pioneers/AEM.php |url-status=dead }} In authorship he is referred to as A. E. Maylard.
Life
He was born in 1855.
He studied medicine at the University of London, graduating MB ChB. He then worked as a demonstrator in the Anatomy Department of Glasgow University.
When the Victoria Infirmary opened in Glasgow in 1890, he was its principal surgeonGlasgow Herald 19 February 1890 alongside Robert Henry Parry.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hharp.org/library/glasgow/doctors/robert-parry.html|title = Robert Henry Parry : Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow}} In 1907, Maylard and a colleague modified the Pfannenfstiel incision and the subsequent Maylard incision (used during abdominal surgery) is attributed to him.
In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Frederick Orpen Bower, Thomas Hastie Bryce, Sir John Graham Kerr and John Walter Gregory.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2017-09-02|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}
He died at Kingsmuir near Peebles on 27 June 1947.http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=266883.0 {{User-generated source|date=May 2022}} He is buried in Peebles Parish Churchyard.
Publications
- Climbing Considered on its Physiological Aspects
- Walks Around Peebles
- Memories and Musings of a Hospital Surgeon (1920)
- The Glasgow Infirmaries (1933)
Family
He was married to Jane Reddie. The couple had no children.
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Category:19th-century British surgeons
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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