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Obituary Notices. 
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Henry Barnes, O.B.E., M.D., LL.D. Contributed by his daughter, 
Miss E. Barnes. 
(Read January 9, 1922.) 
Henry Barnes, O.B.E., M.D., LL.D., was the third son of Mr Joseph 
Barnes, yeoman, and was born at Aikton, Cumberland, on 20th July 
1842. He was educated at St Bees Grammar School, and afterwards at 
Edinburgh University. He graduated M.D. with honours in 1864, and 
in the same year he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons 
(England). He settled in Carlisle in 1866, and in 1873 he was appointed 
honorary physician to the Cumberland Infirmary, which position he held 
till 1903. He was then appointed consulting physician, in which office 
he remained up to the time of his death. From 1904 to 1910 he was 
chairman of the committee of management. In 1906 he was elected 
one of the vice-presidents, and in November 1920 he accepted the office 
of president. It will thus be seen that his labours for the Cumberland 
Infirmary extended over nearly half a century. Large extensions were 
made to the institution in 1908. A new Nurses’ Home was built, a new 
ophthalmic and X-ray department were provided, and additional wards 
added. An inscription over the door of the Nurses’ Home states that it 
was named “ the Barnes Wing in recognition of the services rendered by 
Henry Barnes, M.D., in the enlargement of the Infirmary.” It was also 
mainly due to his efforts that the Infirmary received a grant of £30,000 
from the British Red Cross Society at the end of the war. 
Dr Barnes was keenly interested in the work of the British Medical 
Association. It was through him that the Cumberland and Westmorland 
Branch was formed. Later on the area was extended and the title was 
changed to the Border Counties Branch, and in 1876 he was elected 
president. In 1896 the annual meeting of the British Medical Association 
was held in Carlisle under Dr Barnes’ presidency. Two years later, when 
the annual meeting was held in Canada, the degree of LL.D. from the 
M‘Gill University was conferred upon him. He was also a Fellow of 
the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1882), a Fellow of the Royal Society 
of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 
In addition to his professional work for the Cumberland Infirmary, 
Dr Barnes was physician to the Carlisle Dispensary, the Carlisle Fever 
Hospital, the Border Counties Home for Incurables, and consulting 
physician to the Silloth Convalescent Institution. In 1907 he helped 
