Napier of Magdala, Lord, military engineer officer, born in Ceylon; distinguished himself at the sieges of Multan, Delhi, and Lucknow; commanded an expedition in Abyssinia, stormed and took Magdala in 1868, for which he was rewarded with high honours (1810-1890).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Napier, Sir William * Naples