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.

Napier was promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 January, 1899.

Captain

Napier was promoted to the rank of Captain on 30 June, 1903.

On 14 January, 1913, Napier was appointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George V, vice Tudor.

War Service

In the King's Birthday Honours of 3 June, 1916, Napier was appointed a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.).

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.

Naval Office
Preceded by The Hon. Victor A. Stanley	Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1914	Succeeded by Edmond Hyde Parker
Preceded by New Command	Rear-Admiral Commanding, Second Light Cruiser Squadron 1914 – 1915	Succeeded by William E. Goodenough
Preceded by New Command	Rear-Admiral Commanding, Third Light Cruiser Squadron 1915 – 1917	Succeeded by Allen T. Hunt
Preceded by New Command	Vice-Admiral Commanding, Light Cruiser Force 1917 – 1919	Succeeded by Command Abolished
Preceded by Morgan Singer	Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West Indies Station 1919 – 1920	Succeeded by Sir William C. Pakenham