Born at Bourne in Lincolnshire on Dec 31 1852. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital and passed the examination for MRCS a few months before he attained the legal age for qualifying. He served as an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital for a short time until he was elected House Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 1874. He held the post for three years, became a member of Downing College, and graduated BA and MB in 1878. Sir George Humphry (qv) nominated him to act as his deputy at the Hospital, where he was elected as an additional Surgeon on Nov 24, 1879, having just previously passed the examinations for the Fellowship of the College and the Master of Surgery in the University. He resigned his office of Surgeon in 1915 and was elected a Consulting Surgeon. Soon after his appointment as Surgeon he instituted the Ophthalmic Department. From 1884-1911 he was University Lecturer on Surgery and undertook the course of operative surgery and the clinical teaching. After the death of Professor Howard Marsh (qv) in 1915 Wherry acted as supervisor of the surgical examinations in the University. In 1927 he was complimented by being elected an Hon Fellow of Downing College. Wherry died with acute abdominal symptoms at Zermatt whilst on a holiday in Switzerland on Aug 12, 1928. Three years before his death he was successfully operated upon for a popliteal aneurysm by ligature of the femoral artery at the apex of Scarpa's triangle.