Priscilla Napier

Title		Published
The Sword Dance	Lady Sarah Lennox and the Napiers	1971
A Difficult Country	The Napiers in Scotland	1972
Revolution and the Napier Brothers 1820 - 1840		1973
A Memoir of Lady Delia Peel	Born Spencer 1889 - 1981	1984
I Have Sind	Charles Napier in India 1841 - 1844	1990
Raven Castle	Charles Napier in India 1844 - 1851	1991
Black Charlie	A Life of Admiral Sir Charles Napier KCB 1787 - 1860	1995
Barbarian Eye	Lord Napier in China 1834 The Prelude to Hong Kong	1995
Henry at Sea	Part one of the life of Captain Henry Napier RN 1789 - 1853	1997
Henry Ashore	Part two of the life of Captain Henry Napier RN 1789 - 1853	1997
A Late Beginner	A memoir of Priscilla's own early years in Egypt	1966

Priscilla Napier was born on 5 October 1908 in Oxford, the Daughter of Sir William Hayter, legal/financial advisor to the Egyptian government in the days of the British Protectorate. Her mother was Alethea Slessor, the daughter of a Hampshire rector. She spent her early days in Egypt but left there at the age of 12 to continue her education. At the age of 22 Priscilla married a naval officer, Trevylyan Napier. Sadly, on 30 August 1940, Commander Trevylyan died on HMS Jackel and through her long widowhood, after bringing up their three children, Priscilla wrote a series of books about her husbands famous Napier family. She died at Guildford, Surrey 10th October 1998.

Her husband was descended from the Napiers of East Pennard in Somerset and their ancestors were the ones who are said to have migrated from Scotland to Dorset in the late 15th Century.