Born in Liverpool on 9 November 1899 he was brought up at Merthyr, South Wales, and educated at Cardiff and the Westminster Hospital, qualifying in 1922. After a short time in general practice he gained surgical experience at the Westminster and Guy's Hospitals and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, and took the Fellowship at the end of 1926. He soon obtained appointments to the London Jewish Hospital and the Bearsted Memorial Hospital, and became consulting surgeon to the East Ham Memorial Hospital 1930-48, and to All Saints Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases now the Urological Centre of the Westminster Hospitals group. During the war of 1939-45 he was a surgeon under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service at Goodmayes, Essex. He also had a large private practice, particularly among political, legal and theatrical personalities, first at 62 Wimpole Street and later at 2 Harley Street. He lived at 43 Bryanston Court. Levy was a tall, dignified man of kindly, generous temperament, with a keen intellect and lively interest in people and in charitable causes. He was a strict orthodox Jew, served on the Board of Deputies of the Anglo-Jewish community and worked hard for the Friends of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. He died suddenly on 12 January 1959 aged 59, survived by his wife and their two daughters.