James Roche Verling [SEP] date of death
James Roche Verling
James Roche Verling (1787–1858) was a British Army surgeon who became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
Life.
Verling was born in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. He graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. He was commissioned Second Assistant Surgeon in the Ordnance Medical Department (which provided medical officers to the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers) in 1810 during the Peninsular War. After the defeat of Napoleon and his exile in St Helena after 1815 the British decided that Napoleon
- James Roche Verling, British Army surgeon, became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena (born 1787).