William Napier (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral William Rawdon Napier (13 June 1877 – 8 April 1951) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.

Naval service
Napier joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1887. He served in World War I and was mentioned in dispatches for his service in Gallipoli and then awarded the DSO for minesweeping operations. He was appointed First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff in 1926; he retired in 1929 and was promoted to full admiral in 1933. He died at his home in Fareham in Hampshire in 1951.