Dr. James Barry was a military hero who rose as far as Inspector General in Charge of Military Hospitals – the second highest-ranked medical office in the British Army. Find out more at Engineering
Barry was the second highest-ranked medical officer in the British Army and fought a mean duel.Dr. James Barry was a military hero who rose as far as Inspector General in Charge of Military Hospitals – the second highest-ranked medical office in the British Army. A somewhat hot-headed doctor, Barry was also known for a pistol duel and a famed argument with Florence Nightengale.
Barry made many enemies while in South Africa by criticizing local officials for their handling of medical issues. In 1828, after being promoted yet again, this time to the rank of Surgeon of the Forces, he was posted, first to Mauritius, an isolated island off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, then to Jamaica in the Caribbean, and in 1836, to the island of Saint Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.
Always argumentative, Barry at one point entered into a pistol duel with a certain Captain Josias Cloete of the 21st Light Dragoons, and Barry's aim was such that the bullet removed just the peak of Cloete's military cap, leaving both duelists unscathed.During the Crimean War, which lasted from 1854 to 1856, Barry even managed to get into an argument with the famed nurse Florence Nightingale who described him as,"the most hardened creature I ever met.
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