Background
He was the son of Walter Berry of Glenstriven FRSE (d1904), the Danish Consul General for Scotland.
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George Berry
Sir George Andreas Berry FRSE Doctor of Laws was a world-leading eye surgeon and Scottish Unionist politician.
Education
He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire before studying Medicine at Edinburgh University.
Career
He was a famous ophthalmologist and wrote a textbook Diseases of the Eye (1893) that was widely used in the United Kingdom and United States.A. In 1889, Berry published a description of a case of Treacher Collins syndrome (sometimes called Berry-Treacher Collins syndrome). 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.
In the First World War he was in charge of Optical Surgery in the 2nd Scottish General Hospital (now the Edinburgh Western General).
The grave lies on the concealed southern terrace, at Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. President of the British Medical Association 1905
Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1881, serving as President, 1910-1912
Head of Ophthalmic Surgery for Scotland during the First World War (serving at Craiglockhart Hospital)
Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1919-1922.
Achievements
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Company-founder of the Ophthalmological Society of United Kingdom, 1880, President 1910-1911.
Membership
32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 33rd United Kingdom Parliament. 34th United Kingdom Parliament.
35th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected as Member of Parliament Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities at the 1922 general election, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1931 general election.
