He was born in Williamstown, Melbourne to John Charles Stephens, a newspaper owner, and his wife Kate.
He was dux of Camberwell Grammar School and graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1900.
He served at the Royal Children's Hospital for forty-five years and the Henry Douglas Stephens Memorial Operating Theatre was named in his honour.
From 1935 to 1940 he was Dean of the Clinical School at the Royal Children's Hospital, and he was a councillor of the Royal Victorian College of Nursing and the Victorian Society for Crippled Children.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article related to medicine is a stub.