James Barry

Description: (military physician, Surgeon)
Military surgeon James Miranda Steuart Barry is most noted for making medical reforms and performing one of the first known successful Caesarean sections in Africa. Although during adulthood Barry lived as a man, at birth Barry was named Margaret Ann Bulkley and was known as a girl-child. Barry's birth sex became public after a post-mortem examination.     

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Birthday November 9, 1795 (Scorpio)
Died on July 25, 1865
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