Born on 4 January 1925, son of Maxwell Levy and Rose Harrison, Alan Harrison Levy was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bristol University where he was awarded the Suple Gold Medal in 1948. He held resident appointments at the Royal Infirmary and the Bruce Wills Hospital, Bristol, later serving in the RAMC and attaining the rank of Captain. He emigrated to Canada where he was surgeon to Campbellford Memorial, Coburg General and Port Hope Memorial Hospitals. He became president of the medical staff at St Joseph's Hospital and director of Peterborough Clinic in 1967. His main interests were general and urological surgery and he published papers on tuberculosis of the renal tract, urinary fistulae and biliary problems. He was an amateur historian of the eighteenth century. He died on 5 May 1982, survived by his wife Joan, son, daughter and his mother.