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Barry Edward O'Meara (1786 – 1836) was an Irish surgeon and founding member of theReform Club who accompaniedNapoleon toSaint Helena and became his physician, having been surgeon on boardHMS Bellerophon when the emperor surrendered himself. He was a medical graduate ofTrinity College Dublin.[1][2]
O'Meara is remembered as the author ofNapoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena (1822) a book which charged SirHudson 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.[3]
O'Meara was also the physician to have performed the very first medical operation on Napoleon: by extracting awisdom tooth in the autumn of 1817.[4]
O'Meara's granddaughter,Kathleen O'Meara was a Catholic writer based in Paris.[5]
O'Meara was portrayed byMichael Williams in the 1972 Anglo-American historical drama filmEagle in a Cage.[citation needed]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "O'Meara, Barry Edward".The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
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