Field Marshal Robert Cornelis (1st Baron Napier of Magdala) Napier, GCB, GCSI, FRS

1810 - 1890  (79 years)

• Name	Robert Cornelis (1st Baron Napier of Magdala) Napier
  Prefix	Field Marshal
  Suffix	GCB, GCSI, FRS
  Birth	6 Dec 1810
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Jan 1890
  Person ID	I501997	First tree
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2026

  
  

  Family	Anne Sarah Pearse,   b. 1820   d. 1849 (Age 29 years)
  Children	1. Hon Catherine Anne Carrington Napier,   b. 1841   d. 1929 (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F79897	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2026

  
  

• Notes

  He was a British Indian Army officer. He fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War before seeing action as chief engineer during the second relief of Lucknow in March 1858 during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He also served in the Second Opium War as commander of the 2nd division of the expeditionary force which took part in the Battle of Taku Forts, the surrender of Peking's Anting Gate and the entry to Peking in 1860. He subsequently led the punitive expedition to Abyssinia in July 1867, defeating the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia with minimal loss of life among his own forces and rescuing the hostages of Tewodros.