Hugh Acland

Sir Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland (10 September 1874 – 15 April 1956) was a New Zealand surgeon.

Early life He was born in 1874 in Christchurch. Bishop Harper and Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet were his grandfathers; John Acland was his father and Jack Acland, MP for in the 1940s, was his son. The artist Bessie Acland was his sister. Acland was one of the first doctors in New Zealand who confined their medical practice to surgery. He joined the New Zealand Medical Corps for World War I and survived the sinking of the SS Marquette in 1915.

In 1924, Acland bought Chippenham Lodge in Browns Road, St Albans, which had previously belonged to John Evans Brown. His family lived there for the rest of his life. In the 1919 King's Birthday Honours, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, also for war services. Acland was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1933 King's Birthday Honours. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal, and in 1953 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.

Death and commemoration Acland died in 1956 at Chippenham Lodge. This short cul-de-sac is located in the residential red zone.