Alan Cameron Maconie received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital whence he qualified MB, BS in 1923. After holding house posts at St Bartholomew's and the Royal Northern Hospitals, he specialised in otolaryngology and was successively surgeon in the ENT departments at the Virginia Water and Heatherwood Hospital, the Holloway Sanatorium, and the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow. Later he became surgeon in charge of the ENT department, and consultant surgeon at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor and Maidenhead. His death was reported in the GMC list for 3 March 1989.