Napier, Robert Cornelis, 1810-1890

1826 commissioned as a second-lieutenant; 1827 lieutenant; 1828 Bengal Sappers and Miners; 1829-1830 commanding a company at Delhi; 1830 sick leave at Mussooree; 1831-1836 assistant on the Great Eastern Jumna Canal project; 1836-1838 furlough; 1838-1840 acting executive engineer in the Barisal division of eastern Bengal; 1840 executive engineer of the Sirhind division; 1841 second-captain; 1842-1845 oversaw building of Ambala Cantonment; 1845-1846 chief engineer in army of the Sutlej in First Anglo-Sikh War; 1846-1848 consulting engineer to the resident and council of regency of the Punjab; 1848-1849 chief engineer during Second Anglo-Sikh War, including the siege of Multan; 1849 brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1849-1856 civil engineer to the board of administration of the Punjab; 1852 Hazara expedition; 1853 Bori valley expedition; 1854 brevet colonel; 1856 regimental lieutenant-colonel; 1857 officiating chief engineer of Bengal; 1857-1858 military secretary and chief of the adjutant-general's department, de facto chief engineer and chief of staff; 1858 CB; 1858-1859 commander of Gwalior division; 1859 GCB; 1860 command of 2nd division of China expeditionary force; 1861 major-general; 1861-1865 military member of the council of the viceroy of India; 1863 acting viceroy and governor-general; 1865-1867 and 1869 commander-in-chief at Bombay; 1867 lieutenant-general; 1867-1868 commander of the Abyssinian expedition; 1868 peerage, GCSI, freedom of the City of London; 1869 elected Fellow of the Royal Society; 1870-1876 commander-in-chief in India, ordinary member of the governor-general's council; 1874 general, colonel-commandant of the corps of Royal Engineers; 1876-1883 governor and commander-in-chief at Gibraltar; 1883 field marshal; 1887 constable of the Tower of London and lieutenant and custos rotulorum for Tower Hamlets

Epithet: Field Marshal

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