Henry Douglas Stephens

Henry Douglas Stephens (1877 to 1952) was an Australian paediatric surgeon, born in Williamstown, Melbourne, the son of a newspaper owner. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1900 after schooling at Camberwell Grammar School, where he was dux. He served at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne for forty-five years, and its Henry Douglas Stephens Memorial Operating Theatre was named in his honour. He was also a consultant paediatrician at the Women's Hospital in Melbourne from 1931 to 1945, co-founded the Melbourne Paediatric Society, and from 1935 to 1940 was Dean of the Clinical School at the Royal Children's Hospital. He sat on the council of the Royal Victorian College of Nursing and of the Victorian Society for Crippled Children, and his son Frank Douglas Stephens also became a surgeon.