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Life
1756-1832; b. in Waterford; son John Walsh (1720-85), a merchant of Ballymountain Hse., and br. of Robert Walsh [q.v.]; studed medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow (MD, 1791); fnd. a literary society in Waterford; issued ‘The Progress of Despotism: a Poem on the French Revolution’ (1792), ded. to Charles James Fox; served as army surgeon on West Indies packet; served in Ireland, 1798 and assisted at battles; he was present at the surrender of Gen. Humbert in Ballinamuck, 7 Sept. 1798; served Holland, 1799, and suffered serious injury to his hand at the attack on Copenhagen, 1 April 1801; stationed in Canada with the 49th Regt. throughout the Peninsular War, and studied indigenous peoples - amassing much information which was never published; present at battles of the Peninsular War and Waterloo; served on the Walcheren campaign [expedition], 1809 - when 4,000 British troops died of fever; wrote Narrative of the Expedition to Holland (1800), in verse; d. 7 Feb. at Summerhill, Dublin. PI ODNB WIKI
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