Hugh Barry was a senior orthopaedic surgeon at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was born in Orange in 1912 and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, won a blue at rugby, and was awarded the Rhodes scholarship for New South Wales, which took him to New College, Oxford. There he worked at the Dunn School of Pathology with his fellow Australian, Howard Florey, gaining a BSc. He went on to the London Hospital to specialise in surgery. During the second world war, Hugh served in a forward surgical unit at El Alamein and also in the Pacific, in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. After the war he returned to Sydney, to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he became senior orthopaedic surgeon in 1964, holding this position until he retired in 1972, though continuing in private practice and medico-legal work. He was elected to the council of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1958, serving for 12 years. He was also a member of the Court of Examiners. He was President of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and Chairman in Sydney of the Fifth Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Associations of the English-speaking world in 1970. He was on the editorial board of the *Journal of bone and joint surgery* from 1972 to 1976. He wrote *Paget's disease of bone* (Edinburgh, E & S Livingstone, 1959) and *Orthopaedics in Australia: the history of the Australian Orthopaedic Association* (Sydney, Australian Orthopaedic Association, 1983). He died in Palm Beach on 17 September 1994 after a long illness, survived by his wife Mary, two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Jane.