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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
Napier was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 14 December, 1887.[1]
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.[2]
Napier was promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 January, 1899.[3]
Captain
Napier was promoted to the rank of Captain on 30 June, 1903.[4] On the occasion of the King's visit to Ireland Napier was appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) on 11 August.[5]
He assumed command of the destroyer Crescent in February 1904.[6]
He was appointed command of the battleship Bellerophon on 16 August, 1910.[7]
On 14 January, 1913, Napier was appointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George V, vice Tudor.[8]
Writing to Lord Fisher on the subject of New Scheme Lieutenants (E) in late 1911, Engineer Commander Charles G. Taylor wrote:
You told me in one of your letters that you had once nominated Captain Napier as the 1st Lord's private secretary - but for some reason it fell through. Could it not be resuscitated - we should have a real friend and upholder of the New Scheme at the admiralty then.[9]
Flag Rank
Napier was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 24 October, 1913, vice Tuke.[10]
Great War
In the King's Birthday Honours of 3 June, 1916, Napier was appointed an Additional Member of the Third Class, or Companion, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.).[11]
Napier was promoted Acting Vice-Admiral on 30 July, 1917 in command of the Light Cruiser Force.[12]
Napier was confirmed in the rank of Vice-Admiral on 26 October, 1918, vice Tottenham.[13]
Post-War
Napier was appointed an Additional Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Military Division of the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) on 1 January, 1919.[14]
Footnotes
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25771. p. 7300. 30 December, 1887.
- ↑ Fremantle. My Naval Career. p. 48.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27040. p. 84. 6 January, 1899.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27572. p. 4187. 3 July, 1903.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27586. p. 5058. 11 August, 1903.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 440.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28684. p. 589. 24 January, 1913.
- ↑ Churchill. Winston S. Churchill: Companion Volume II Part 2. p. 1344. The younger Churchill thinks that the Napier referred to is Charles Lionel Napier, but this seems rather unlikely.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28772. p. 7870. 11 November, 1913.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29608. p. 5553. 2 June, 1916.
- ↑ The National Archives. ADM 196/42. p. 440.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 30992. p. 13001. 5 November, 1918.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31099. p. 106. 1 January, 1919.
Bibliography
- "Admiral Sir T. Napier" (Obituaries). The Times. Saturday, 31 July, 1920. Issue 42477, col C, p. 15.
- Fremantle, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert, G.C.B., M.V.O. (1949). My Naval Career: 1880—1928. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
Papers
Service Records
- The National Archives. ADM 196/88.
- The National Archives. ADM 196/42.
| Naval Appointments | ||
| Preceded by William E. Goodenough |
Captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1907 – 1910 |
Succeeded by Hugh Evan-Thomas
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| Preceded by The Hon. Victor A. Stanley |
Captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1914 |
Succeeded by Edmond Hyde Parker
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| Preceded by New Command |
Rear-Admiral Commanding, Second Light Cruiser Squadron 1914 – 1915 |
Succeeded by William E. Goodenough
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| Preceded by New Command |
Rear-Admiral Commanding, Third Light Cruiser Squadron 1915 – 1917 |
Succeeded by A. Thomas Hunt
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| Preceded by New Command |
Vice-Admiral Commanding, Light Cruiser Force 1917 – 1919 |
Succeeded by Command Abolished
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| Preceded by Morgan Singer |
Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West Indies Station 1919 – 1920 |
Succeeded by Sir William C. Pakenham
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