Joseph Barnes (14 November 1914 – 4 May 2017) was an Irish physician and medical missionary who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940s.[1][2][3][4] There he worked with sisters from the Medical Missionaries of Mary including Sr Mary de Lourdes Gogan.[5] Most notably, he co-founded International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation (ICROSS) with Michael Elmore-Meegan.
Joseph Barnes | |
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Died | 6 May 2017 | (aged 102)
Occupation(s) | Physician, medical missionary |
Born in Belfast, Barnes was educated at Synge Street CBS and University College, Dublin.[6] He lectured in tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He became a centenarian in November 2014, and died in 2017, aged 102.[7][8][9][10][11][12]