Sir Hibbert Alan Stephen Newton

Sir Hibbert Alan Stephen Newton MB MS FRCS (30 April 1887 – 4 August 1949), generally known as (Sir) Alan Newton was a noted Australian surgeon.

History Newton was born in Malvern, Victoria, a son of Hibbert Henry Newton (1861–1927) and Clara Violet Newton, née Stephen (1863–1935), and grandson of Hibbert Newton, MP.

He was educated at Haileybury College in Brighton, Victoria, and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1909, taking first class honors throughout his course and taking top honours in his final year. He was resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1910 and honorary surgeon to the outpatients department from 1913 to 1917. He served in the RAAMC with the First AIF during the Great War, then continued his studies in London, and was admitted as a Master of Surgery and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a clinical lecturer in surgery from 1927 and honorary consulting surgeon at the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.

He was a noted teacher of surgery and largely responsible for the formation of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and served as its president. He has been credited with raising the standard of medical teaching in Melbourne.

A portrait by W. B. McInnes (an Archibald Prize entry in 1936) hangs in the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. They had a son and a daughter.