General sir charles napier
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SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER (1782-1853)
Introduction
Sir Charles Napier had a remarkable military career, starting with the Napoleonic Wars and continuing into the middle of the 19th century with a variety of overseas campaigns and in particular in India. The monument to Napier in Trafalgar Square shows him bearing a scroll, symbolic of the administration of Sind and in his right hand is a sword held to his breast. On the pedestal is the inscription "Charles James Napier, General, born MDCCLXXXII; died MDCCCCLIII. Erected by public subscription from all classes, civil and military, the most numerous subscribers being private soldiers".
| Statue in Trafalgar Square, Aug 2006 | Monument in Chester Cathedral |
Monument in Chester Cathedral, moved from St. Thomas' church in Hyderabad in 1952.
Brief Biography
The Napiers were a Scottish family and one of the members in the 16th century was the mathematician who invented Naperian logarithms. In the 18th century the heiress of the family married one of the Scott family of Th
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Biography
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General Sir Charles JamesNapier (1782-1853)
Taken from Sir Lesley Stephen & Sir Sidney Lee (eds.), Dictionary of National Biography: from the earliest times to 1900 (London, Oxford University Press, 1949).
This image has been taken from the Victorian Web and is the copyright of Prof. George Landow.
Sir Charles Napier was the conqueror of Sind. He was the eldest son of Colonel the Hon. George Napier and his second wife, Lady Sarah Bunbury. Napier was born at Whitehall, London, on 10 August 1782. George Thomas Napier, Henry Edward Napier, and William Francis Patrick Napier were his brothers. When he was only three, the family moved to Celbridge, on the Liffey ten miles from Dublin. His father was a very handsome
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Napier, Charles (1786-1860)
NAPIER, Sir CHARLES (1786–1860), admiral, born on 6 March 1786, was the eldest son of the Hon. Charles Napier (1731–1807) of Merchiston Hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy, by Christian, daughter of Gabriel Hamilton of West Burn; grandson of Francis Scott Napier, fifth lord Napier; first-cousin of the half-blood of General Sir Charles James Napier [q. v.], of Henry Edward Napier [q. v.], and of General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier [q. v.] He entered the navy in 1799 on board the Martin sloop, then on the coast of Scotland; in 1800 he was moved into the Renown, carrying the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren [q. v.] in the Channel, and afterwards in the Mediterranean, where, in November 1802, he was moved into the Greyhound, and served for a few months under Captain (afterwards Sir) William Hoste [q. v.] He then served in the Egyptienne in a voyage to St. Helena in charge of convoy, and in 1804–5 in the Mediator and Renommée off Boulogne. On 30 Nov. 1805 he was promoted to be lieutenant of t
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