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 th

I first met Scotty when I was an intern in the Casualty Department in my first week at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1958. Scotty was the senior surgical registrar. Three of us new graduates had each seen the same patient and managed him poorly. Scotty took us all aside and explained what we shoul