George Andreas Berry
Sir George Andreas Berry FRSE LLD (6 October 1853 – 18 June 1940)[1] was a world-leading eye surgeon and Scottish Unionist politician.
He was elected as Member of Parliament MP for the Combined Scottish Universities at the 1922 general election,[2] and held the seat until he stood down at the 1931 general election.[2]
Life
He was the son of Walter Berry of Glenstriven FRSE (d.1904), the Danish Consul General for Scotland. He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire before studying Medicine at Edinburgh University.[3]
He was a famous ophthalmologist and wrote a textbook Diseases of the Eye (1893) that was widely used in the U.K. and U.S.A.[4] In 1889, Berry published a description of a case of Treacher Collins syndrome (sometimes called Berry-Treacher Collins syndrome).[5]
In 1893 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, William Rutherford, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser and Sir Stair Agnew.[3]
In the First World War he was in charge of Optical Surgery in the 2nd Scottish General Hospital (now the Edinburgh Western General).
Berry is buried with his wife, Dame Agnes Jean Berry (née Muir), whom he married in 1883. The grave lies on the concealed southern terrace, at Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.
Notable Positions Held
- Co-founder of the Ophthalmological Society of UK, 1880, President 1910-11
- President of the British Medical Association 1905
- Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1881, serving as President, 1910-12
- Head of Ophthalmic Surgery for Scotland during the First World War (serving at Craiglockhart Hospital)
- Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1919-22[6]
References
- ↑ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 673. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- 1 2 https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
- ↑ "JAMA Network - JAMA Ophthalmology - SIR GEORGE A. BERRY, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.S. 1853-1940" (PDF). 1 September 1940.
- ↑ Gorlin, R.J.; Cohen, M.M.; Hannekam, R.C.M. (2001). Syndromes of the head and neck (4th ed.). Oxford U. Press. pp. 799–801.
- ↑ http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
External links
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Wikisource has original works written by or about: George Andreas Berry |
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Andreas Berry
- Berry, Sir George A. (1893). Diseases of the Eye. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co.
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| Preceded by Sir William Cheyne Dugald Cowan Sir Henry Craik |
Member of Parliament for Combined Scottish Universities 1922 – 1931 With: Dugald Cowan 1918–1934 Sir Henry Craik, to 1927 John Buchan from 1927 |
Succeeded by Noel Skelton Dugald Cowan John Buchan |