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3 unusual facts about Henry Edward Napier


Henry Edward Napier

His brothers included General Sir Charles James Napier, Commander-in-Chief, India and conqueror of Sindh; Lieutenant-General Sir George Thomas Napier, Governor and Commander of the Cape of Good Hope; and General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, and author of the History of the Peninsular War.

He was the fifth son of Colonel the Honourable George Napier, and his second wife, Lady Sarah Lennox, seventh daughter of the 2nd Duke of Richmond, and one of the famed Lennox sisters.

In August 1815 Napier went on half-pay, having declined accepting a piece of plate which had been voted to him for his care in the conduct of convoys between the port of Saint John, New Brunswick and Castine, Maine.



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