Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier

Vice-Admiral SIR Trevylyan Dacres Napier Willes Napier, K.C.B., M.V.O., Royal Navy (19 April, 1867 – 30 July, 1920) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War.

Early Life & Career

In 1889 Napier was appointed to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich to qualify for gunnery duties. In his class of ten were Charles Vaughan-Lee, Arthur Leveson, and Sydney Fremantle. Fremantle later wrote about this period at Greenwich in his memoirs:

We each had our own comfortable room, and my next-door-neighbour was Trevylyan Napier, a man of great ability and unusual charm of character. He was a gifted pianist, rather to my detriment, as it would happen more often than not that one of the other of the class would come to Trev's room to have some mathematical difficulty explained, and very quickly powers would be called upon, to the disadvantage of my studies.

Out of the class of ten, Napier, Vaughan-Lee, Leveson and Fremantle obtained first class passes in the theoretical examination.

War Service

Napier was promoted Acting Vice-Admiral on 30 July, 1917 in command of the Light Cruiser Force.

Napier was promoted to Vice-Admiral from acting rank on 26 October, 1918, vice Tottenham.

Bibliography

• "Admiral Sir T. Napier" (Obituaries). The Times. Saturday, 31 July, 1920. Issue 42477, col C, pg. 15.
• Template:BibFremantleMyNavalCareer

Papers

• Papers in the possession of the Imperial War Museum. Catalogue number 8437 99/34/1-3.

Service Record

• The National Archives. ADM 196/42.