Hugh Weaver was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born on 24 August 1945 in Brighton, Victoria. His father, Percy Lloyd Weaver, worked in insurance; his mother, Olive May Weaver née Armour, was a teacher. The family moved several times during Weaver’s childhood: he was a pre-schooler at Woodend, attended primary school at Bendigo and was a high school student in Hamilton. Despite being bright, he initially failed his matriculation, but passed at his second attempt. He went on to study at the University of Melbourne, originally as a science student, before transferring to medicine. He graduated in 1970. He was an intern at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. From early 1974 he was based in the UK, working in Perth, Scotland and the West Middlesex Hospital, London. In 1976 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In early 1982, Weaver returned to Melbourne, where he was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. In the early 1990s he changed careers, from orthopaedic surgery to carrying out medico-legal assessments, principally the diagnosis and assessment of workplace injuries. He also spent several decades tutoring and assessing students in anatomy. Outside medicine he was interested in biology, history and natural history. He was an anglophile; his passion for Britain and its relationship with Australia informed many of his talks and his reading. In 1971 he met Pamela Pettitt; they later married and had one son, Chris, and three grandchildren. Weaver survived non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2007 and then fought brain cancer for four years until his death on 18 December 2019. He was 74.