Joseph Barnes (Irish doctor)


Joseph Barnes was an Irish physician and medical missionary who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940s. Most notably, he co-founded International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation with Michael Elmore-Meegan.
Born in Belfast, Barnes 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.