VERY old residents or dairy farmers of Berry may remember Chesborough Grant, the manager of a dairy farm in Berry.
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His wife Henrietta (nee Leary) was a nurse and they had four sons. In 1926 they moved to Chatswood.
One son was John Grant (1922-2013) who died recently. He became a neurosurgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital, where he started the neurosurgery department.
He was dedicated to rehabilitation which drove him to become a tireless advocate for people with spinal disabilities.
He was co-founder and president of the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of NSW and president of the International Wheelchair Sports Federation.
He went on to found the Far South East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled. This takes in as far north as Japan and Korea, as far south as Australia, as far east as Samoa and as far west as India and Pakistan, involving 60 nations.
He won many awards in his life – an OBE in 1973 and an OAM in 1990 and the Maengho medal from the president of South Korea in 1988.
His commitment to Paralympics was formally recognised when he was awarded the gold medal of the International Paralympics Committee. The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was followed by the Paralympic Games.
In 2001 he was awarded the Australian medical Association Award for the greatest contribution to Australian health in 2000.
In 2002, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) and given the ESR Hughes Award of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
His nephew, Dr Simon Grant, is a physician in Bowral.
Berry can indeed be proud of another of its sons.
J. Roche,
Sutton Forest.