Barry Edward O'Meara was an Irish

Ireland

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 surgeon

Surgery

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 and founding member of the Reform Club

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, who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena and became his physician, having been surgeon on board the Bellerophon when the emperor surrendered himself. He is remembered as the author of Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena (1822) a book which charged Sir Hudson Lowe

Hudson Lowe

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 with mistreating the former emperor and created no small sensation on its appearance.

See also

• Dermot O'Meara, physician, c. 1614-42.
• Edmund O'Meara
  Edmund O'Meara
  Edmund O'Meara Irish physiologist and one of the last prominent champions of the medical ideas of Galen. Son of Dermod O'Meara who was a physician, poet and author...
  
  , physician, c. 1614-81.
• Barry Edward O'meara
  Barry Edward O'Meara
  Barry Edward O'Meara was an Irish surgeon and founding member of the Reform Club, who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena and became his physician, having been surgeon on board the Bellerophon when the emperor surrendered himself. He is remembered as the author of Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice...
  
  , surgeon, died 1836.
• Kathleen O'Meara
  Kathleen O'Meara
  Kathleen O'Meara is an Irish politician and member of the 21st and 22nd Seanads for the Labour Party in Ireland. On both occasions she was elected by the Agricultural Panel....
  
  , writer, 1839-1888.
• François Carlo Antommarchi
  François Carlo Antommarchi
  Dr François Carlo Antommarchi was Napoleon's physician from 1818 to his death in 1821....