Anthony Hugh Taylor Hodgkinson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the University of New South Wales (NSW) teaching hospitals. Born on 27 February 1927 in Orange, NSW, he was the son of Henry Richard Hodgkinson and his wife Sarah Elizabeth née Taylor. His father was a surgeon and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and his mother’s father and two brothers were all medical practitioners. Richard Hodgkinson, his brother, was an orthopaedic surgeon and his partner in practice and his other brother, David, was in general practice. Educated at Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga NSW and Sydney Grammar School he then proceeded to at St Andrew’s College, Sydney University in 1945 to study medicine. Qualifying MB BS in 1951, he did house jobs at the Royal Prince Henry Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women. He travelled to Boston, USA in 1955 as an orthopaedic fellow at the Shortell Traumatic Unit on the Lahey Clinic Programme. The following year he came to the UK and worked at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, followed by a year at the Redhill County Hospital from 1957 to 1958. While there he developed the ‘Hodgkinson tibial nail’ for fixing tibial shaft fractures. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1958 and returned to Australia taking up orthopaedic posts at the Sydney and Prince Henry Hospitals. During the next thirty years he held honorary consultant posts at the various Sydney and Hornsby hospitals including the Mater Misericordiae, the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai and the Sydney Adventist. As a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the University of NSW teaching hospitals he was involved in many aspects of orthopaedic training both as tutor and lecturer. He was a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) board of studies and was vice president of the AOA in 1986. He married Ann Purves Lyttle, a qualified physiotherapist, and they had four children; three sons; Christopher J. who became an accountant; Graeme A. N. a lawyer and economist and James T. an economist, and a daughter, Penelope S. who was a social worker. Outside medicine he enjoyed playing golf, flying, painting and drawing. On 24 February 2017 he died of Parkinson’s disease just three days prior to his 90th birthday, and was survived by his wife and family.