Joseph Barnes (Irish doctor)

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.

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]}