Sir William Francis Patrick Napier

(1785-1860)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Napier, William Francis Patrick, Sir, 1785-1860 NRA: Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick (1785-1860) Knight General and Historian DNB: Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick (1785-1860), army officer and writer LBT ID: WiNapie1860 VIAF ID: 25337800 LOC ID: n85300668	B/BAP: 1785-12-17 DIED: 1860-02-12
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British general; served in Spain and Portugal (1808-13); author of History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, 6 vols (1828).
REFERENCES TO Sir William Francis Patrick Napier: Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 20 June 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Sydney Smith to John Nicholas Fazakerly, October 1829 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1809 Found 1: ¶ n2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 October 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 8 October 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 17 November 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 7 December 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Philip Henry Stanhope to John Murray, 11 December 1836 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1828 Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ n1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 20 January 1837 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Murray to the Morning Chronicle, 13 February 1837 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXII. 1829 Ch. XXXVII. 1836-1837 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1829 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 2: ¶ 54 ¶ 55 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 29 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXIII Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter XXXVIII Found 1: ¶ 4 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter X. 1852-55. Found 1: ¶ 9-15 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXVII. Found 1: ¶ 23 Chap. XXVIII. Found 1: ¶ 33 Chap. XXIX. Found 7: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 Chap. XXXIV. Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. V: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch XIII: 1835-36 Found 1: ¶ n2 Ch XIV: 1837-38