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]