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'''Barry Edward O'Meara ''' (1786–1836) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] [[surgery|surgeon]] and founding member of the [[Reform Club]], who accompanied [[Napoleon]] to [[St. Helena]] and became his physician, having been surgeon on board the [[HMS Bellerophon (1786)|Bellerophon]] when the emperor surrendered himself.
[[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)]]
'''Barry Edward O'Meara ''' (1786 – 1836) was an Irish surgeon and founding member of the [[Reform Club]] who accompanied [[Napoleon]] 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 &ndash; 1836) - School of Medicine - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref>
 
==Life==
O'Meara is remembered as the author of ''Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena'' (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 St.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 Sir [[Hudson 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 Autumnautumn 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>
 
==Legacy==
O'Meara's granddaughter, [[Kathleen O'Meara (writer)|Kathleen O'Meara]] was a Catholic writer based in Paris.<ref>Flaherty, M. (1911). Kathleen O'Meara. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved December 6, December 2014 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11250b.htm</ref>
 
O'Meara was portrayed by [[Michael Williams (actor)|Michael Williams]] in the 1972 Anglo-American historical drama film ''[[Eagle in a Cage]]''.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
 
==See also==
* [[DermodFrançois O'MearaCarlo Antommarchi]], physician, c. 16141780-42.1838
* [[EdmundDermod O'Meara]], physician, c. 1614-81.42
* [[Kathleen O'Meara (writer)|KathleenEdmund O'Meara]], writerphysician, 1839c. 1614-1888.81
* [[Kathleen O'Meara (writer)|Kathleen O'Meara]], writer, 1839-1888
* [[François Carlo Antommarchi]]
 
==Notes and references==
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==References==
 
* ''O'Meara, Barry Edward'', pp.&nbsp;806–07, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 41 - Norbury - Osborn'', [[Oxford]], 2004.
* ''{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121211020132/http://www.inside-longwood.com/ Inside Longwood, Barry O'Meara's clandestine letters]}}'', Albert Benhamou, 2012, {{ISBN |9780-9564654-12}}.
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