Dr Claude Thomas Barry
Personal Details
Dr Claude Thomas Barry LRCP MD FFARCS DA
22/11/1909 to 07/07/1979
Place of birth: Cork, Ireland
Nationality: British
CRN: 715752
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Medical School in Paris 1928-35. Awarded Bronze Medal in 1935 for his thesis on the heredity of morbid characteristics acquired by man |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
LRCP (Edin.) LRCS (Edin.) LRFPS (Glasg.), 1937 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA (RCP&S), 1946 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Having moved to Edinburgh and passing the Scottish ‘Triple’ in 1937, Barry was house physician at the Heart Hospital in Liverpool and at the Royal Northern Infirmary in Inverness. Next he was Assistant Medical Officer at Hope Hospital, Salford followed by Assistant Medical Officer at Highgate Hospital, London in 1939. On the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the RAMC (TA) where he attained the rank of Captain and was graded Anaesthetist. After demobilisation in 1946 he was appointed Registrar in Anaesthetics at the British Postgraduate Medical School, London. In 1947 he took on the post of Anaesthetist at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, and in 1948 Anaesthetist at the Plastic and Maxillo-Facial Unit of Baguley Emergency Hospital in Altrincham (Manchester). Returning to Edinburgh in 1949, he was appointed a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Western General Hospital (WGH), where he remained until his retirement in 1974. He continued to do locums until the last year of his life.
Professional interests and activities
Barry led the expansion of the anaesthetic service at the WGH and the training of junior anaesthetists. He published about ten papers, mainly on monitoring, decamethonium, and comparison of methohexitone and thiopentone. Noted to be a kind and careful doctor, he was also a respected teacher. While maintaining membership of several national medical societies, locally he was President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Edinburgh for 1964-65.
Other biographical information
He was the son of a Professor of Physiology at Queen’s College in Cork, and the family moved to France. Claude married Monica de Saumarez Craig in London in 1940 and they had three sons and two daughters. One of his sons, Richard, became a trainee anaesthetist. In retirement Claude enjoyed photography, fishing, swimming, and was an avid climber of monros in Scotland. Predeceased by his wife in 1978, he died while admiring the view from the top of a Scottish mountain.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
[1] Obituary BMJ 1979; ii: 742. [2] Medical Registers and Directories. [3] ancestry.co.uk