Fourness Henry Simmons was born in Watchet, Somerset. He changed his name in 1891. He was educated in Britain and at Edinburgh University, where he was Dunlop scholar 1883 and Buchanan scholar 1884 and took honours at his qualification. He served as junior assistant to the professor of midwifery and house physician in the gynaecological wards of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. After a short visit to his home at Sydney, he came to London in 1885 on appointment as resident physician of the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was a member of the British Gynaecological Society and of the obstetrical societies of Edinburgh and London. After postgraduate study at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at Berlin, Munich, and Dresden, he took the English Fellowship in 1894, though not previously a Member of the College. The following year he went back to Australia where he practised at 213 Macquarie Street, Sydney, living at Bayswater Road, Darlinghurst. He was at first gynaecologist to Lewisham Hospital, and was appointed assistant gynaecological surgeon to Edward Thring at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, in 1906, became gynaecological surgeon in 1920, and was elected a consultant when he retired in 1924. He was also consulting obstetrician to the South Sydney Women's Hospital, and to St Vincent's Hospital. He was an original Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. From 1913 to 1921 he was lecturer in obstetrics at Sydney University, and thereafter lecturer in gynaecology till his retirement under age limit. He was an excellent teacher. Barrington married twice: (1) Christina Scott, who was survived by their daughter; their son, Lieutenant Noel Scott Barrington, was killed in France in the war of 1914-18. (2) In 1917 Elizabeth Blaxland Hays, who survived him without children. Barrington died at 2 Wyuna Road, Point Piper, Sydney, on 1 September 1946, aged 82. He had been a prominent member of the Australian Club and the Royal Sydney Golf Club, and was a keen fisherman. Publications:- Rare forms of malignant disease of the female sexual organs. *Edin obstet Soc Trans*. 1885. Impressions of a year's gynaecology in Germany. *Austral med Gaz*. 1897, 16, 317.