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William Craig Emilius Napier

William Craig Emilius Napier

British Army general (1818–1903)

Major-General William Craig Emilius Napier (18 March 1818 – 23 September 1903) was a British Army officer who became Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

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Military career

Born the son of Lieutenant-General Sir George Thomas Napier and educated at Cheltenham College,[1] William Napier served with the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), and subsequently with the King's Own Scottish Borderers.[1] He was Director-General of Military Education and fought at the recapture of Port Natal in 1842, in the Scinde Campaign in 1845 and in the Crimean War in 1855.[1]

He went on to be Commandant of the Staff College, Sandhurst in 1861[2] and Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from 1875.[3]

He was given the colonelcy of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) from 1874 to 1882[4] and of the King's Own Scottish Borderers from 1882 to his death.[5]

Family

He died in 1903. In 1845 he had married his cousin, Emily Cephalonia Napier, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier; they had seven daughters and one son.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Cheltenham Register
  2. [2]
    "No. 22551". The London Gazette. 27 September 1861. p. 3861.
  3. [3]
    Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain by Peter Beauclerk Dewar, p. 1101
  4. [4]
    3rd Foot
  5. [5]
    "The King's Own Scottish Borderers". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 30 December 2005. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  6. [6]
    The Peerage.com

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