Hubert Chitty received his medical education at University College London graduating in 1904. During 1909-1911 he served as senior medical officer at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and then he joined the staff of that hospital as a general surgeon, but his chief interest was always in orthopaedic work. In the first world war he served in the Royal Navy with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. After the war he was appointed surgeon to the Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, one of the first to be elected to the staff when the Hospital was opened in 1932. Chitty also worked as orthopaedic surgeon at Frenchay Park Hospital. He remained attached to those hospitals until his retirement in 1946, when he became closely associated with the Bristol Crippled Children's Society and the Bristol Council for the Disabled. He was also an Emeritus Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. In 1947-48 he was a Sheriff of Bristol, and in 1946 was President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society. Before the introduction of antibiotics he reported the successful treatment of actinomycosis of the liver and lung with large doses of iodised milk, combined with intratracheal injections of lipiodol in patients with lung infections. Chitty was a man of wide interests and he travelled widely, visiting many parts of the world. His wife died in 1964, and he was survived by a son and two daughters, his youngest son having predeceased him in 1958 at the age of 38. His eldest son went to Canada, and became Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. When he retired Chitty first lived in Portishead, Somerset, then moved to Bath where he died on 13 December 1966 at the age of 85.