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.^[1][2] In authorship he is referred to as A. E. Maylard.

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 surgeon^[3] alongside Robert Henry Parry.^[4] 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.^[5]

He died at Kingsmuir near Peebles on 27 June 1947.^[6] He is buried in Peebles Parish Churchyard.

• Climbing Considered on its Physiological Aspects
• Walks Around Peebles
• Memories and Musings of a Hospital Surgeon (1920)
• The Glasgow Infirmaries (1933)

He was married to Jane Reddie. The couple had no children.