James Barry was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, then served first in Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently in many parts of the British Empire. Before retirement, Barry had risen to the rank of Inspector General in charge of military hospitals, the second-highest medical office in the British Army. Barry not only improved conditions for wounded soldiers, but also the conditions of the native inhabitants, and performed the first recorded caesarean section by a European in Africa in which both the mother and child survived the operation.
Portrait claimed to be of Barry, c. 1820s
Portrait of James Barry, painted c. 1813–1816
Barry (left) with John, a servant, and Barry's dog, Psyche, c. 1862, Jamaica
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. She was the first female dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain.
Detail from a portrait of Garrett Anderson circa 1900
Her parents, Newson and Louisa Garrett in their old age; from What I Remember by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
A portrait of Garrett in the 1860s
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson before the Faculty of Medicine, Paris