William Napier (British Army officer)

Major-General William Craig Emilius Napier (18 March 1818 – 23 September 1903) was a British Army officer who became Governor of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

Military career
Born the son of Lieutenant-General Sir George Thomas Napier and educated at Cheltenham College, William Napier served with the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), and subsequently with the King's Own Scottish Borderers. He was Director-General of Military Education and fought at the recapture of Port Natal in 1842, in the Scinde Campaign in 1845 and in the Crimean War in 1855. He went on to be Colonel of the Buffs from 1874 and Governor of the Royal Military College Sandurst from 1875.

He was the author of two books:
 * Outpost Duty: To Which Are Added Treatises on Military Reconnaissance and on Road Making published in 1869
 * Passages in the Early Military Life of General Sir George T. Napier published in 1884.

Family
In 1845 he married Emily Cephalonia Napier, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier; they had seven daughters and one son.