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

Born on 9 January 1882 at the Cape of Good Hope, one of the sons of a naval surgeon who later became Director-General of the Navy Medical Service as Sir Henry Norbury KCB, he was educated at St Paul's and Merchant Taylors' Schools and St Thomas's Medical School which he entered in 1899. He had a dis