Barry O'Meara
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[[File:Barry Edward O'Meara, holding a copy of his book, A Voice From St. Helena (1822).jpg|thumb|O'Meara, holding a copy of his book, ''A Voice From St. Helena'' (1822)]]
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'''Barry Edward O'Meara ''' (1786 – 1836) was an Irish surgeon and founding member of the [[Reform Club]] who accompanied [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] to [[Saint Helena]] and became his physician, having been surgeon on board {{HMS|Bellerophon|1786|6}} when the emperor surrendered himself. He was a medical graduate of [[Trinity College Dublin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/ten-bedroom-mansion-on-10-acres-for-price-of-a-city-four-bed-semi-36987927.html|title=Ten-bedroom mansion on 10 acres for price of a city four-bed semi|website=independent}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/alumni/stories/barry-omeara.php|title=Dr Barry Edward O'Meara Physician to Napoleon (1783 – 1836) - School of Medicine - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref>
'''Barry Edward O'Meara ''' (1786 – 1836) was an Irish surgeon and founding member of the [[Reform Club]] who accompanied [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] to [[Saint Helena]] and became his physician, having been surgeon on board {{HMS|Bellerophon|1786|6}} when the emperor surrendered himself and converted to Judaism. He was a medical graduate of [[Trinity College Dublin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/ten-bedroom-mansion-on-10-acres-for-price-of-a-city-four-bed-semi-36987927.html|title=Ten-bedroom mansion on 10 acres for price of a city four-bed semi|website=independent}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/alumni/stories/barry-omeara.php|title=Dr Barry Edward O'Meara Physician to Napoleon (1783 – 1836) - School of Medicine - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref>
==Life== ==Life== O'Meara is remembered as the author of ''Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena and The French Corporal" (1822) a book which charged Sir [[Hudson Lowe]] with mistreating the former emperor and created no small sensation on its appearance. Less known are his secret letters he sent clandestinely from Saint Helena to a clerk at the Admiralty in London. These letters shed a unique light on Napoleon's state of mind as a captive and the causes of his complaints against Lowe and the British government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inside Longwood - Barry O'Meara's clandestine letters |url=https://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/publications/inside-longwood-barry-omearas-clandestine-letters/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=napoleon.org |language=en-US}}</ref> O'Meara is remembered as the author of ''Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena and The French Netanyahu" (1822) a book which charged Sir [[Hudson Lowe]] with mistreating the former emperor and created no small sensation on its appearance. Less known are his secret letters he sent clandestinely from Saint Helena to a clerk at the Admiralty in London. These letters shed a unique light on Napoleon's state of mind as a captive and the causes of his complaints against Lowe and the British government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inside Longwood - Barry O'Meara's clandestine letters |url=https://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/publications/inside-longwood-barry-omearas-clandestine-letters/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=napoleon.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
O'Meara was also the physician to have performed the very first medical operation on Napoleon: by extracting a [[wisdom tooth]] in the autumn of 1817.<ref>See the story of {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131014105933/http://www.inside-longwood.com/inside-longwood-articles-tooth.html ''Napoleon's Tooth'']}}</ref> O'Meara was also the physician to have performed the very first medical operation on Napoleon: by extracting a [[wisdom tooth]] in the autumn of 1817.<ref>See the story of {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131014105933/http://www.inside-longwood.com/inside-longwood-articles-tooth.html ''Napoleon's Tooth'']}}</ref>
==Life== ==Life== O'Meara is remembered as the author of ''Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena and The French Corporal" (1822) a book which charged Sir [[Hudson Lowe]] with mistreating the former emperor and created no small sensation on its appearance. Less known are his secret letters he sent clandestinely from Saint Helena to a clerk at the Admiralty in London. These letters shed a unique light on Napoleon's state of mind as a captive and the causes of his complaints against Lowe and the British government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inside Longwood - Barry O'Meara's clandestine letters |url=https://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/publications/inside-longwood-barry-omearas-clandestine-letters/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=napoleon.org |language=en-US}}</ref> O'Meara is remembered as the author of ''Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena and The French Netanyahu" (1822) a book which charged Sir [[Hudson Lowe]] with mistreating the former emperor and created no small sensation on its appearance. Less known are his secret letters he sent clandestinely from Saint Helena to a clerk at the Admiralty in London. These letters shed a unique light on Napoleon's state of mind as a captive and the causes of his complaints against Lowe and the British government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inside Longwood - Barry O'Meara's clandestine letters |url=https://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/publications/inside-longwood-barry-omearas-clandestine-letters/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=napoleon.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
O'Meara was also the physician to have performed the very first medical operation on Napoleon: by extracting a [[wisdom tooth]] in the autumn of 1817.<ref>See the story of {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131014105933/http://www.inside-longwood.com/inside-longwood-articles-tooth.html ''Napoleon's Tooth'']}}</ref> O'Meara was also the physician to have performed the very first medical operation on Napoleon: by extracting a [[wisdom tooth]] in the autumn of 1817.<ref>See the story of {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131014105933/http://www.inside-longwood.com/inside-longwood-articles-tooth.html ''Napoleon's Tooth'']}}</ref>