Modern English biography

_portrait_; _Irish law times xxiv_ 446–7 (1890); _Law Journal 23 Aug. 1890 p._ 514. NAISH, WILLIAM (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). _b._ High st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London 1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13 numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. _d._ Bath 4 March 1860. _bur._ Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill near Bath. _J. Smith’s Catalogue ii_ 210–14 (1867). NOTE.--His son Arthur John Naish, _b._ 1816, founded with Paul Bevan the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he _d._ 1889. NALLY, PATRICK W. _b._ co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case; detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison on 27 Nov. 1891. _d._ Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people attended. _The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p._ 5, _16 Nov. p._ 5. NAPIER OF MAGDALA, _Robert Cornelis Napier_, 1 Baron (son of Charles Frederick Napier, major R.A. _d._ 1812). _b._ Colombo, Ceylon 6 Dec. 1810; ed. at Addiscombe 1824–6; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826; laid out the new settlement of Dargiling 1838–42; served at battles of Ferozeshah 21 Dec. 1845, and Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; served in the second Sikh war 1848–9; civil engineer to board of administration of the Punjab 1849–56 where he carried out important public works; officiating chief engineer of Bengal 1857; military secretary and chief of the adjutant general’s department in Oudh, and at relief of Lucknow 1857, severely wounded at second relief of Lucknow 17 Nov. 1857, commanded a brigade of engineers at siege of Lucknow 21 March 1858; commanded the Central India force May 1858, defeated Tantia Topee in June, commanded the Gwalior division 29 June, captured the rebel leaders Man Singh and Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; commanded the second division in the expedition to China Jany. 1860, took the Peiho forts 21 Aug. 1860; military member of council of governor general of India Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1865; commander-in-chief of the Bombay army Jany 1865; commanded the expedition to Abyssinia which landed at Zoulah 2 Jany. 1868, defeated the troops of King Theodore 10 April and stormed Magdala 13 April; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 27 July 1858, G.C.B. 27 April 1868; G.C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; created baron Napier of Magdala in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the county palatine of Cheshire 14 July 1868; received freedom of cities of London 21 July 1868 and of Edinburgh 15 Sept. 1868; hon. colonel of 3rd London rifle corps 22 July 1868 to death; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1869; commander-in-chief in India Jany. 1870 to 10 April 1876; col. commandant of the R.E. 1 April 1874 to death; general 1 April 1874; governor of Gibraltar 30 June 1876 to 1 Jany. 1883; field marshal 1 Jany. 1883; constable of Tower of London 6 Jany. 1887 to death. _d._ 63 Eaton sq. London 14 Jany. 1890. _bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 21 Jany. equestrian statue by Boehm erected in Calcutta 1876, a replica of which was unveiled in Waterloo place, London 8 July 1891. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age_ (1870) 308–71; _T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 228–35; _C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition_ (1869) 140 _et seq._; _E. H. Nolan’s Indian mutiny iii_ 71 _portrait_; _I.L.N. li_ 349, 350 (1867) _portrait_, _18 July 1891 p._ 67 _view of statue_; _Graphic xvii_ 293 (1878) _portrait_. NOTE.--He is depicted under the name of general Sutton in the novel called Chronicles of Dustypore, a tale of modern Anglo-Indian society. By the author of Wheat and Tares (H. S. Cunningham). 2 vols. 1875. NAPIER, ALEXANDER (6 son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). _b._ Edinburgh 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1847; V. of Holkham, Norfolk 1847 to death; chaplain and librarian to earl of Leicester; R. of Egmere with Waterden 1847 to death; edited Isaac Barrow’s Theological Works, 9 vols. Camb. 1859; Life of Samuel Johnson, by J. Boswell, 5 vols. 1884, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1884; translated and edited J. A. W. Neander’s The epistle to the Philippians and the general epistle of James 1851; Karl Elze’s Lord Byron 1872; Julius Payer’s New lands within the Arctic circle, 2 vols. 1876; A. T. F. Michaelis’ The Holkham bust of Thucydides 1878; his wife Robina Napier translated Memoirs of prince Metternich 1773–1815, edited by prince Richard Metternich, 5 vols. 1880–4; he _d._ Holkham vicarage 24 Aug. 1887. _Quarterly Review Oct. 1869 pp._ 353–81. NAPIER, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Napier of Merchiston hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy 1731–1807). _b._ Merchiston hall 6 March 1786; entered navy 1 Nov. 1799, captain 22 May 1809; lost his fortune in an attempt to promote iron steamers on the Seine 1819–27; vice-admiral, major general of the Portuguese navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet in the cause of Donna Maria and Dom Pedro 8 June to 15 Oct. 1833; defeated the squadron of Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent 3 July 1833; promoted to rank of admiral and created viscount Cape St. Vincent in peerage of Portugal July 1833; granted grand cross of order of the Tower and Sword and created count Cape St. Vincent by Dom Pedro; captain H.M.S. Powerful, 84 guns, 1 Jany. 1839; commanded a squadron off Syria June 1840, took Beyrout from the Egyptians 10 Oct. 1840, and Acre 3 Nov.; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Dec. 1840, received orders of Maria Theresa of Austria, of St. George of Russia, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the first class of the Medjidie; presented with freedom of city of London 23 Sept. 1841; captain on h.p. 1841; naval A.D.C. to the queen 30 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the channel fleet May 1847 to April 1849; V.A. 28 May 1853; commanded the fleet in the Baltic sea 25 Feb. 1854 to 19 Feb. 1855, where he blockaded all the Russian ports; admiral 6 March 1858; contested Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1832 and Greenwich 1837; M.P. Marylebone 1841–7; M.P. Southwark 1855–60; author of An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, 2 vols. 1836; The life of sir C. Napier, chiefly by himself, 3 ed. 1841 portrait; The war in Syria, 2 vols, 1842; The history of the Baltic campaign 1857. _d._ Merchiston hall, Horndean, Hants. 6 Nov. 1860. _bur._ at Catherington; portrait by T. M. Joy in painted hall at Greenwich, and another portrait by John Simpson in National portrait gallery, Edinburgh. _E. D. H. E. Napier’s Life of sir C. Napier_, 2 _vols._ (1862) _portrait_; _Men of the time_ (1857) 558–64; _G.M. x_ 209–16 (1861); _E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i_ 310 (1855) _portrait_; _Sporting Review xxxii_ 205–7 (1854) _portrait_; _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 93–101, 121 _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 175 (1843) _portrait_, _xxiv_ 207, 208 (1854) _portrait_. NAPIER, SIR CHARLES JAMES (eld. son of colonel the hon. George Napier 1751–1804). _b._ Whitehall, London 10 Aug. 1782; ensign 33 foot 31 Jany. 1794; lieut. 89 foot 8 May 1794; captain in the staff corps 22 Dec. 1803; major 50 foot 6 Nov. 1806 to 27 June 1811; served in Spain, was wounded five times at battle of Corunna 16 Jany. 1809, a prisoner at Corunna Jany. 1809 to Jany. 1810; lieut. col. 102 foot 27 June 1811 to 2 Sept. 1813; commanded a brigade against U.S. of America May 1813 for some months; lieut. col. 50 foot 2 Sept. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1814; served as a volunteer against Napoleon 1815; inspecting field officer in the Ionian Islands 30 July 1818, placed on h.p. 1 March 1832; resident of Cephalonia March 1822 to 1830; commanded troops in northern district, India April 1839, and at Poona 12 Dec. 1841; commanded the Sinde and Beloochistan division 24 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1846; won the battle of Meanee with 2,700 men against more than 20,000 men 17 Feb. 1843; defeated Shir Muhammad, the Lion of Mirpur, at Haidarabad 24 March 1843; Sinde finally annexed 24 May 1844; col. of 22 foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; captured Bega Khan Dumki, the leading hill chief 9 March 1845; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief in India 7 March 1849 to 6 Dec. 1850; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 4 July 1843; author of Memoir on the roads of Cephalonia 1825; The colonies, treating of their value generally, of the Ionian islands in particular 1833; Remarks on military law and flogging 1837; A letter on the baggage of the Indian army 1849; A letter on the defence of England by volunteers and militia 1852. _d._ Oaklands, near Portsmouth 29 Aug. 1853. _bur._ in ground attached to garrison chapel at Landport; bronze statue by G. G. Adams in Trafalgar sq. London, unveiled 26 Nov. 1856. _W. F. P. Napier’s Life of sir C. J. Napier_, 4 _vols._ (1857) 4 _portraits_; _W. N. Bruce’s Life of general sir C. Napier_ (1885) _portrait_; _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 316–21; _E. H. Nolan’s Illust. history of British empire in India ii_ 669 (1860) _portrait_; _G.M. xl_ 410–6 (1853); _Men of the time_ (1853) 330–3; _I.L.N. ii_ 255 (1843) _portrait_, _xiv_ 145, 146 (1849) 2 _portraits_, _xxiii_ 191, 192, 229, 230, 431 (1853) _portrait_. NOTE.--He was the first general who recorded in his despatches the names of private soldiers who had distinguished themselves side by side with officers. A portrait of him photographed by W. E. Kilburn on 24 March 1849, has been engraved in line by Joseph Skelton. He was called in the army “Old Fagin” from his strong likeness to the Jew in Oliver Twist. NAPIER, DAVID. _b._ 1790; founded with his cousin Robert Napier, the firm of Napier and Sons, shipbuilders and marine engineers, Govan, Glasgow; introduced coasting steamers for the post office service 1818; established regular steam communication between Greenock and Belfast, and in 1822 between Liverpool, Greenock, and Glasgow; constructed machinery for the United Kingdom 1826, the largest vessel then designed; invented the steeple engine; tried the application of the surface condenser in marine engines; proposed a plan for removal of the Glasgow sewage by means of barges. _d._ 8 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 23 Nov. 1869. _Glasgow daily herald 27 Nov. 1869 pp._ 4, 5; _Engineering 3 Dec. 1869 p._ 365. NAPIER, EDWARD DELAVAL HUNGERFORD ELERS (elder son of Edward Elers, lieutenant R.N., _d._ 1814). _b._ 1808; took additional name of Napier from his mother’s second husband, admiral sir Charles Napier; ensign 46 foot 11 Aug. 1825, major 11 Oct. 1839, retired on h.p. 14 Oct. 1842; served in India 1830–3; obtained release of Syrian troops detained by Mahomet Ali, and conducted them to Beyrout, May to Sept. 1841; commanded bodies of irregulars during the Kaffir war 1846–7; colonel of 61 foot 3 Oct. 1864, and of 46 foot 22 Feb. 1870 to death; L.G. 3 Oct. 1864; author of Scenes and sports in foreign lands, 2 vols. 1840; Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols. 1842; Reminiscenses of Syria, 2 vols. 1843; Wild sports in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 2 vols. 1844; Excursions in Southern Africa, 2 vols. 1849; The life of admiral sir Charles Napier, 2 vols. 1862. _d._ Westhill, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 19 June 1870. _Colburn’s United service mag. Aug. 1870 pp._ 484–92. NAPIER, GEORGE (son of George Napier, solicitor). _b._ 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1823; advocate depute 1830–4 and 1835–40; sheriff of Peebleshire 1840 to death. _d._ Coates hall, Haymarket terrace, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1883. NAPIER, SIR GEORGE THOMAS (brother of sir Charles James Napier 1782–1853). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 June 1784; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 Jany. 1800; lieut. 52 foot 25 Dec. 1802, major 27 June 1811; served in Sicily, Sweden, and Portugal, and in the Peninsular campaigns 1809–11; lost his right arm at assault on Ciudad Rodrigo 19 Jany. 1812; deputy adjutant general of the York district 1812; lieut. col. 71 foot 24 March 1814; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814; lieut. col. 44 foot 22 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. 19 April 1821; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 4 Oct. 1837 to 12 Dec. 1843, where he enforced the abolition of slavery, and abolished inland taxation; declined command of Sardinian army 1849; col. of 1 West India regiment 29 Feb. 1844 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; author of Passages in the early military life of general sir G. T. Napier, edited by W. C. E. Napier 1884, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ Geneva 8 Sept. 1855, his body was brought to England July 1881 and _bur._ in family vault at Cosham near Portsmouth. _Passages in the early military life of Sir G. T. Napier_ (1886) _portrait_. NAPIER, GEORGE THOMAS CONOLLY (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 1815; ensign 52 foot 7 Sept. 1832; lieut. Cape mounted riflemen 23 Feb. 1839, lieut. col. 17 May 1850 to 28 Jany. 1853, when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the queen 20 June 1854 to Dec. 1861; deputy quartermaster general North America 1 July 1859 to 6 Dec. 1861; M.G. on the staff in Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 1 Jany. 1867; col. 96 foot 14 June 1869 to 10 May 1872; col. 22 foot 10 May 1872 to death; L.G. 30 April 1871; C.B. 31 May 1853. _d._ Morpeth terrace, Victoria st. Westminster 5 May 1873. NAPIER, HENRY ALFRED (youngest son of 8 baron Napier 1758–1823). _b._ 20 June 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; R. of Swyncombe, near Henley 13 Oct. 1826 to death; author of Historical notices of the parishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme, Oxfordshire 1858, 4to. 63/-, published by himself at Oxford. _d._ Swyncombe rectory 20 Nov. 1871. _I.L.N. lix_ 531 (1871). NAPIER, HENRY EDWARD (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). _b._ 5 March 1789; entered navy 20 Sept. 1806; served in the East Indies 1808–11; lieutenant 4 May 1810; commanded the Goree, 18 guns, 7 June 1814, and afterwards the Rifleman, 18 guns, in the Bay of Fundy; placed on h.p. Aug. 1815, captain on h.p. 31 Dec. 1830; F.R.S. 18 May 1820; author of Florentine history, from the earliest authentic records to the accession of Ferdinand the third, 6 vols. 1846–7. _d._ 62 Cadogan place, London 13 Oct. 1853. NAPIER, JAMES. _b._ Partick, Glasgow June 1810; apprenticed to a dyer; studied at Glasgow univ.; lived in London and Swansea several years; returned to Glasgow about 1849–50, where he became closely associated with Anderson’s college and the technical school founded by James Young; author of A manual of electro-metallurgy 1851, 5 ed. 1876; A manual of the art of dyeing, Glasgow 1853; A manual of dyeing receipts 1855, 3 ed. 1875; The ancient workers in metal, from references in the Old Testament 1856; Stonehaven and its historical associations, 2 ed. 1870; Notes relating to Partick 1873; Manufacturing arts in ancient times 1874; Folk lore or superstitious beliefs in the West of Scotland 1879; illustrated J. Mac Arthur’s The antiquities of Arran 1861, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ Bothwell, Lanarkshire 1 Dec. 1884. NAPIER, JAMES ROBERT (son of Robert Napier of Shandon 1791–1876). _b._ Camlachie 12 Sept. 1821; educ. Glasgow high sch. and univ.; managed his father’s ship building at Govan 1841; invented plan of working outside plating of ships in alternate in and out strakes; a partner in firm of R. Napier and sons 1853–7; a shipbuilder on his own account a few years; engaged in West Scotland fishery co.; invented the graphic method of correcting deviations of a ship’s compass known as Napier’s Diagram 1851; invented Napier’s Glass coffee apparatus; took out many patents; a founder of Institution of engineers in Scotland, president 1863; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; M.I.N.A.; wrote 17 scientific papers; contributed to Macquorn Rankine’s Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical 1866; edited Francis Napier’s Australian notes. _d._ 22 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 13 Dec. 1879. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_ (1886) 115, 118, 237–40, 243, 270 _portrait_; _Nature xxi_ 206. NAPIER, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Wm. Napier of Belfast, merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ Belfast 26 Dec. 1804; ed. at Belfast academical institution; entered Trin. coll. Dublin Nov. 1820; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, LL.B. and LL.D. 1851; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; revived the Old College historical society, president 1854 to death; student at Gray’s Inn 1828; called to Irish bar 1831; the only lawyer in Dublin who had pupils; delivered lectures on the common law, and established a law institute in Dublin; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844; much employed in appeals before the house of lords; contested univ. of Dublin 9 Aug. 1847; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1848–58; introduced and carried through the house of commons the ecclesiastical code, afterwards known as Napier’s ecclesiastical code; bencher of King’s Inns 1852; attorney general of Ireland March to Dec. 1852; P.C. Ireland 1852; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854; lord chancellor of Ireland 10 March 1858 to June 1859; created baronet 26 March 1867; the special champion of the Irish church; vice-chancellor of Dublin univ. 1867 to Dec. 1879; one of the 26 members of the ritual commission June 1867; P.C. 11 Nov. 1868; member of judicial committee of privy council 11 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1881; chief comr. of the great seal Ireland 11 March 1874 to 1 January 1875; edited with John C. Alcock Reports of cases argued in the courts of King’s Bench and exchequer chamber in Ireland 1831–3, Dublin 1834; author of A manual of precedents of forms and declarations on bills of exchange and promissory notes 1831; Digest of the civil bill and manor courts statutes, Dublin 1836, 2 ed. 1843; Essay on the communion service of the church of England or Rome, which shall govern Ireland 1851, 2 ed. 1851; and many Addresses and Speeches 1854–73. _d._ St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 9 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin, memorial tablets in mortuary chapel of the cemetery and in St. Patrick’s cathedral. _A. C. Ewald’s Life of Sir Joseph Napier_ (1887) _portrait_; _O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 293–307; _Sir Joseph Napier’s Lectures, essays, and letters_ (1888) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xiv_ 405 (1849) _portrait_, _xxxiii_ 394 (1858) _portrait_; _Graphic xxvii_ 60 (1883) _portrait_. NAPIER, MACVEY (son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). _b._ 1807 or 1808; edited Selections from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier 1879. _d._ 7 Pembroke villas, Richmond, Surrey 8 July 1893. NAPIER, MARK (only son of Francis Napier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). _b._ 24 July 1798; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; advocate at Scottish bar 1820; sheriff depute of Dumfriesshire 4 Nov. 1844 to death, and of Galloway to death; author of Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston 1834; History of the partition of the Lennox 1835; Montrose and the covenanters, 2 vols. 1838; Commentaries on the law of prescription in Scotland 1839, 2 ed. 1854; Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, 2 vols. 1856. _d._ 6 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1879. _Journal of jurisprudence xxiii_ 652 (1880). NAPIER, PETER. _b._ Dumbarton 1793; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1847; assistant presbyterian minister at Port Glasgow 1815; minister of St. George’s in the Fields, Glasgow 1824; minister of Blackfriars ch. Glasgow 1845 to death; author of A course of lectures on infidelity 1842; Grace exhibited, grace communicated