George Harold Arthur Comyns Berkeley KB FRCS FRCOG FRCP (16 October 1865 – 27 January 1946) was an obstetric physician, gynaecological surgeon and medical writer.
[1] Berkeley was also noted for his writing collaborations with Victor Bonney,[2] the book A Textbook of Gynaecological Surgery that is still considered a medical classic.
[1] Berkeley subsequently enrolled for matriculation at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he studied natural science, completing his bachelor's degree in 1887 and achieving a third-class honours in Natural Sciences Tripos Part I.
[2] Berkley was widely known as a bit of a bon viveur by nature and inheritance, whose dinner parties were considered famous and who was involved in all the social activities of Middlesex Hospital including being prominent along with anaesthetist Herbert Charles at the annual dance.
[1] In 1895, Berkeley was appointed to the Chelsea Hospital for Women as a registrar and in 1897 was promoted to an assistant surgeon to Sir Henry Morris.
[2] In 1901, Berkeley moved back to Middlesex Hospital with an appointment as an obstetric registrar and tutor.
[8] This collaboration would lead them to proving the Wertheim radical hysterectomy that was used to treat cervical cancer.
[2] Berkley also worked closely with the Ministry of Health, organising his departments investigation into mortality in childbirth.