Born on 13 November 1866, he was educated at St Thomas's Hospital. After holding resident posts at the Whitechapel Infirmary, the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, the Seamen's Hospital, Ramsgate, and the Royal Free Hospital, and going for a time as a ship's surgeon, he settled when he was about thirty in general practice at Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and was appointed surgeon to the North Ormesby Hospital. He soon began to specialise as a surgical consultant, developing his own nursing home, and became consulting surgeon to Guisborough General Hospital and the Adela Shaw Orthopaedic Hospital, Kirby Moorside. Levick was ambidexterous and a fast and brilliant operator. He was also a man of abounding vitality and became the leading surgeon in that countryside and a prominent citizen of Middlesbrough. Continuing his active life to an advanced age he acquired and was able to use a vast experience of surgery. He was the first Fellow of the College to settle in Middlesbrough and a pioneer of scientific surgery there. During the war of 1914-18 he served in France as a surgical specialist at an advanced casualty clearing station, and said that he there gained valuable experience from the satisfactory results of immediate surgical treatment of injuries. He had been chairman of the Cleveland division of the British Medical Association in 1915, and on his return to civil practice in 1918 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. He was a town councillor for twenty-three years, and was Mayor in 1931 the centenary year of the Corporation. He was a commissioner for taxes, medical referee for workmen's compensation, and assessor to the County Court Judge. He was also President of the local branch of the British Legion and Past Master of the lodge of Freemasons. He promoted the Boy Scout movement, and was active in schemes for improving public health. He advocated smoke abatement by restricting open fires in private houses, and planned the housing of the tuberculous in open estates. At the end of his life he gave his house and grounds to the Corporation with an endowment for erecting and maintaining bungalows for the old. As a young man he played tennis and later golf, and enjoyed shooting and fishing. He died at his house, Willerby, 90 Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough on 23 July 1958 aged 91, survived by his wife; it was the eve of their diamond wedding-day (24 July 1898).