James Berry (surgeon)

Sir James Berry (1860 to 1946) was a Canadian-born British surgeon. Born in Kingston, Canada West, he was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where he served as house surgeon and demonstrator of anatomy. From 1891 he was consulting surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, where he built a reputation for surgery of cleft palates and for treatment of goitre. During the First World War he and his wife Frances, an anaesthetist and distinguished doctor in her own right, established six hospitals in Serbia for wounded soldiers and refugees, and he was decorated by Romania, Serbia and Russia. He was President of the Medical Society of London from 1921 to 1922 and of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1926 to 1928, was knighted in 1925 and retired in 1927. His books include works on the thyroid and on hare-lip and cleft palate.