Hugh Acland (surgeon)

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

[1] He joined the New Zealand Medical Corps for World War I and survived the sinking of the SS Marquette in 1915.

[1] Acland was elected to the North Canterbury Hospital Board in 1927 and remained a member for the following 17 years.

[2] He contested the election for Mayor of Christchurch in 1935 and was narrowly beaten by the incumbent, Labour's Dan Sullivan.

[5] In the 1919 King's Birthday Honours, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, also for war services.