Barry Elsby Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Barry Elsby
Honorific-Suffix:MLA, MD
Constituency Am:Stanley
Assembly:Falkland Islands Legislative
Term Start:15 December 2011
Term End:4 November 2021
Predecessor:Emma Edwards
Successor:Gavin Short
Birth Place:Wales, UK
Nationality:Falkland Islander
Party:Nonpartisan
Spouse:Bernadette

Barry Elsby is a British born, Falkland Islands doctor and politician, who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency since a by-election in 2011 which filled the seat vacated by Emma Edwards.[1] He won re-election in 2013 and 2017.

Elsby first came to the Falklands with his family in 1990, initially on a two-year contract. He works at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Stanley as a general practitioner, specialising in Cancer Research.[2] Before his election to the Legislative Assembly, Elsby was a member of the Media Trust, acting as the Chief Medical Officer on several occasions and was elected by parents to the Board of Education.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: "We are in a war of attrition… and we can't let Argentina win", says Falklands MLA . MercoPress . 16 December 2011 . 17 December 2011.
  2. News: Falklands benefit from cancer screening . . 16 December 2011 . 17 December 2011.
  3. News: Falklands: Election Manifesto Speech of Barry Elsby . Juanita Brock . Falkland Islands News Network . 2 December 2001 . 17 December 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120129014156/http://www.falklandnews.com/public/search.cfm . 29 January 2012 . dead .