CAROLINE NAPIER/ WIFE OF/ CAPTAIN/ HENRY EDWARD NAPIER, R.N./ BORN/ 9TH AUGUST 1806/ DIED/ 5TH SEPTEMBER 1836/ IF I HAD THOUGHT THOU COULDST HAVE DIED/ I MIGHT NOT WEEP FOR THEE/ BUT I FORGOT WHEN BY THY SIDE/ THAT THOU COULDST MORTAL BE/ IT NEVER THROUGH MY MIND HAD PAST/ THAT TIME WOULD E'ER BE OER/ AND I ON THEE SHOULD LOOK MY LAST/ AND THOU SHOULDST SMILE NO MORE/ AND STILL UPON THAT FACE I LOOK/ AND THINK TWILL SMILE AGAIN/ AND STILL THE THOUGHT I CANNOT BROOK/ THAT I MUST LOOK IN VAIN/ BUT WHEN I SPEAK THOU DOST NOT SAY/ WHAT THOU NEER LEFTST UNSAID/ AND NOW I FEEL AS WELL I MAY/ SWEET CAROLINE THOU'RT DEAD/ IF THOU WOULDST STAY EEN AS THOU ART/ ALL COLD AND ALL SERENE/ I STILL MIGHT PRESS THY SILENT HEART/ AND WHERE THY SMILES HAVE BEEN/ WHERE EER THY CHILL BLEAK CORSE I HAD/ THOU DIDST STILL SEEM MY OWN/ BUT HERE I LAID THEE IN THY GRAVE/ AND I AM NOW ALONE/ I DO NOT THINK WHERE ER THOU ART/ THOU HAST FORGOTTEN ME/ AND I PERHAPS MAY SOOTHE THIS HEART/ ON THINKING TOO OF THEE/ YET THERE WAS ROUND THEE SUCH A DAWN/ OF LIGHT NEER SEEN BEFORE/ AS FANCY NEVER COULD HAVE DRAWN/ AND NEVER CAN RESTORE
Caroline Napier is the illegitimate daughter of Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond, who is her husband's relative. Mary, married to Arthur Lambert, is her sister, why they name their son 'Lennox' of the two children they bury in Sector E, E117/ FLORENCE CAROLINE LAMBERT AND GEORGE ARTHUR LENNOX LAMBERT (who die in 1850, 14 years after Caroline Napier's death). JLMaquay 6/9/1836 'Mrs Napier died last ight after an illness of 7 hours, leaves 4 children, poor woman' 21/9/1836 Maquay takes back an old servant who had been with Captain Napier, the latter now leaving as his wife is dead. Before he does so her husband spends a fortune to place on her tomb his very lengthy poem at her death. The Morning Post orbituary by way of Galignani and clearly written by her husband gives the following: 'Died on Monday, the 5th instant, at the Villa Capponi near Florence, after an illness of only fourteen hours, Caroline, wife of Captain H.R.E Napier, RN. The awfully sudden death (at the early age of thirty, and in the treacherous security of the highest health), of one so justly beloved by all who knew her, has excited the deepest sympathy in Florence and its neighbourhood, where a residence of some years has caused her worth to be known and appreciated. Beautiful, refined, and unaffected, the graces of her person were in her but faint and frail symbols of that eternal beauty of the mind which alone is imperishable; and which, while it illustrated her brief career with every act that could dignify the exalted character of a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a friend, or ennoble the active but unpretending exercise of an enlightened faith, a consistent hope, and un univrsal charity, has shed a lustre around her memory which time can never tarnish, nor oblivion efface. Her remains were attended to the grave by a circle of sorrowing friends, anxious to testify to her bereaved husband their high sense of her superior qualities, and their poignant and unfeigned grief at his immeasurable loss'. Dictionary of National Biography emtryotes that Henry Edward Napier's Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accessin of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany 'Napier, Henry Edward 1789-1853, historian, born on 5 March 1789, was son of Colonel George Napier [q.v.], younger brother of Sir Charles James Napier [q.v.], conqueror of Scinde, of Sir George Thomas Napier [q.v.], governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier [q.v.], historian and general. . . . His chief claim to notice is that he was the author of ‘Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany,’ six vols., 1846-7, a work showing much independence of judgment and vivacity of style, but marred by prolixity. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 18 May 1820, and died at 62 Cadogan Place, London, on 13 Oct. 1853. He married on 17 Nov. 1823 Caroline Bennet, a natural daughter of Charles Lennox, third duke of Richmond; she died at Florence on 5 Sept. 1836, leaving three children'. Hare, Horner cite Napier's Florentine History. Since Henry Napier's mother, Lady Sarah Lennox, is the fourth daughter of the second Duke of Richmond, there is serious inbreeding in the family. Caroline Napier's mother, Mary Bennett. joins her eleven years later, seemingly having remained in Florence.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23773/4 N° 50: died at Villa Capponi, Rev Knapp; Baptism children: GL23773 N° 16 Arthur Lennox b 24/12/33 bp 31/03/34 Rev Hutton, G23773 N° 52; Richard Henry b 11/03/36 bp 28/05/36 Rev Hutchinson, father Henry Edward capt RN mother Caroline/ Maquay Diaries: 6 Sep 1836; 21 September/ Obituary, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Napier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 5 Settembre/ 1836/ / 141/ See Bennett, for mother's tomb beside hers, also the Kellett tombs of three descendants from Captain Robert John Napier Kellett (1797-1853), Sector B/ N&Q 443. Caroline, w. of Capt. Henry Edward Napier, R.N., b. 9 Aug., 1806 ; ob. 5 Sep., 1836/DNB/NDNB entries for Henry Edward Napier/°=Charles Napier, Priscilla Napier. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Mary's husband ... ALFRED Lambert (not Arthur Lambert)
Contributor: Jacqui Mills (49682234)
Caroline Napier is the illegitimate daughter of Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond, who is her husband's relative. Mary, married to Arthur Lambert, is her sister, why they name their son 'Lennox' of the two children they bury in Sector E, E117/ FLORENCE CAROLINE LAMBERT AND GEORGE ARTHUR LENNOX LAMBERT (who die in 1850, 14 years after Caroline Napier's death). JLMaquay 6/9/1836 'Mrs Napier died last ight after an illness of 7 hours, leaves 4 children, poor woman' 21/9/1836 Maquay takes back an old servant who had been with Captain Napier, the latter now leaving as his wife is dead. Before he does so her husband spends a fortune to place on her tomb his very lengthy poem at her death. The Morning Post orbituary by way of Galignani and clearly written by her husband gives the following: 'Died on Monday, the 5th instant, at the Villa Capponi near Florence, after an illness of only fourteen hours, Caroline, wife of Captain H.R.E Napier, RN. The awfully sudden death (at the early age of thirty, and in the treacherous security of the highest health), of one so justly beloved by all who knew her, has excited the deepest sympathy in Florence and its neighbourhood, where a residence of some years has caused her worth to be known and appreciated. Beautiful, refined, and unaffected, the graces of her person were in her but faint and frail symbols of that eternal beauty of the mind which alone is imperishable; and which, while it illustrated her brief career with every act that could dignify the exalted character of a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a friend, or ennoble the active but unpretending exercise of an enlightened faith, a consistent hope, and un univrsal charity, has shed a lustre around her memory which time can never tarnish, nor oblivion efface. Her remains were attended to the grave by a circle of sorrowing friends, anxious to testify to her bereaved husband their high sense of her superior qualities, and their poignant and unfeigned grief at his immeasurable loss'. Dictionary of National Biography emtryotes that Henry Edward Napier's Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accessin of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany 'Napier, Henry Edward 1789-1853, historian, born on 5 March 1789, was son of Colonel George Napier [q.v.], younger brother of Sir Charles James Napier [q.v.], conqueror of Scinde, of Sir George Thomas Napier [q.v.], governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier [q.v.], historian and general. . . . His chief claim to notice is that he was the author of ‘Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany,’ six vols., 1846-7, a work showing much independence of judgment and vivacity of style, but marred by prolixity. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 18 May 1820, and died at 62 Cadogan Place, London, on 13 Oct. 1853. He married on 17 Nov. 1823 Caroline Bennet, a natural daughter of Charles Lennox, third duke of Richmond; she died at Florence on 5 Sept. 1836, leaving three children'. Hare, Horner cite Napier's Florentine History. Since Henry Napier's mother, Lady Sarah Lennox, is the fourth daughter of the second Duke of Richmond, there is serious inbreeding in the family. Caroline Napier's mother, Mary Bennett. joins her eleven years later, seemingly having remained in Florence.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23773/4 N° 50: died at Villa Capponi, Rev Knapp; Baptism children: GL23773 N° 16 Arthur Lennox b 24/12/33 bp 31/03/34 Rev Hutton, G23773 N° 52; Richard Henry b 11/03/36 bp 28/05/36 Rev Hutchinson, father Henry Edward capt RN mother Caroline/ Maquay Diaries: 6 Sep 1836; 21 September/ Obituary, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Napier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 5 Settembre/ 1836/ / 141/ See Bennett, for mother's tomb beside hers, also the Kellett tombs of three descendants from Captain Robert John Napier Kellett (1797-1853), Sector B/ N&Q 443. Caroline, w. of Capt. Henry Edward Napier, R.N., b. 9 Aug., 1806 ; ob. 5 Sep., 1836/DNB/NDNB entries for Henry Edward Napier/°=Charles Napier, Priscilla Napier. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Mary's husband ... ALFRED Lambert (not Arthur Lambert)
Contributor: Jacqui Mills (49682234)
CAROLINE NAPIER/ WIFE OF/ CAPTAIN/ HENRY EDWARD NAPIER, R.N./ BORN/ 9TH AUGUST 1806/ DIED/ 5TH SEPTEMBER 1836/ IF I HAD THOUGHT THOU COULDST HAVE DIED/ I MIGHT NOT WEEP FOR THEE/ BUT I FORGOT WHEN BY THY SIDE/ THAT THOU COULDST MORTAL BE/ IT NEVER THROUGH MY MIND HAD PAST/ THAT TIME WOULD E'ER BE OER/ AND I ON THEE SHOULD LOOK MY LAST/ AND THOU SHOULDST SMILE NO MORE/ AND STILL UPON THAT FACE I LOOK/ AND THINK TWILL SMILE AGAIN/ AND STILL THE THOUGHT I CANNOT BROOK/ THAT I MUST LOOK IN VAIN/ BUT WHEN I SPEAK THOU DOST NOT SAY/ WHAT THOU NEER LEFTST UNSAID/ AND NOW I FEEL AS WELL I MAY/ SWEET CAROLINE THOU'RT DEAD/ IF THOU WOULDST STAY EEN AS THOU ART/ ALL COLD AND ALL SERENE/ I STILL MIGHT PRESS THY SILENT HEART/ AND WHERE THY SMILES HAVE BEEN/ WHERE EER THY CHILL BLEAK CORSE I HAD/ THOU DIDST STILL SEEM MY OWN/ BUT HERE I LAID THEE IN THY GRAVE/ AND I AM NOW ALONE/ I DO NOT THINK WHERE ER THOU ART/ THOU HAST FORGOTTEN ME/ AND I PERHAPS MAY SOOTHE THIS HEART/ ON THINKING TOO OF THEE/ YET THERE WAS ROUND THEE SUCH A DAWN/ OF LIGHT NEER SEEN BEFORE/ AS FANCY NEVER COULD HAVE DRAWN/ AND NEVER CAN RESTORE
Caroline Napier is the illegitimate daughter of Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond, who is her husband's relative. Mary, married to Arthur Lambert, is her sister, why they name their son 'Lennox' of the two children they bury in Sector E, E117/ FLORENCE CAROLINE LAMBERT AND GEORGE ARTHUR LENNOX LAMBERT (who die in 1850, 14 years after Caroline Napier's death). JLMaquay 6/9/1836 'Mrs Napier died last ight after an illness of 7 hours, leaves 4 children, poor woman' 21/9/1836 Maquay takes back an old servant who had been with Captain Napier, the latter now leaving as his wife is dead. Before he does so her husband spends a fortune to place on her tomb his very lengthy poem at her death. The Morning Post orbituary by way of Galignani and clearly written by her husband gives the following: 'Died on Monday, the 5th instant, at the Villa Capponi near Florence, after an illness of only fourteen hours, Caroline, wife of Captain H.R.E Napier, RN. The awfully sudden death (at the early age of thirty, and in the treacherous security of the highest health), of one so justly beloved by all who knew her, has excited the deepest sympathy in Florence and its neighbourhood, where a residence of some years has caused her worth to be known and appreciated. Beautiful, refined, and unaffected, the graces of her person were in her but faint and frail symbols of that eternal beauty of the mind which alone is imperishable; and which, while it illustrated her brief career with every act that could dignify the exalted character of a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a friend, or ennoble the active but unpretending exercise of an enlightened faith, a consistent hope, and un univrsal charity, has shed a lustre around her memory which time can never tarnish, nor oblivion efface. Her remains were attended to the grave by a circle of sorrowing friends, anxious to testify to her bereaved husband their high sense of her superior qualities, and their poignant and unfeigned grief at his immeasurable loss'. Dictionary of National Biography emtryotes that Henry Edward Napier's Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accessin of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany 'Napier, Henry Edward 1789-1853, historian, born on 5 March 1789, was son of Colonel George Napier [q.v.], younger brother of Sir Charles James Napier [q.v.], conqueror of Scinde, of Sir George Thomas Napier [q.v.], governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier [q.v.], historian and general. . . . His chief claim to notice is that he was the author of ‘Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany,’ six vols., 1846-7, a work showing much independence of judgment and vivacity of style, but marred by prolixity. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 18 May 1820, and died at 62 Cadogan Place, London, on 13 Oct. 1853. He married on 17 Nov. 1823 Caroline Bennet, a natural daughter of Charles Lennox, third duke of Richmond; she died at Florence on 5 Sept. 1836, leaving three children'. Hare, Horner cite Napier's Florentine History. Since Henry Napier's mother, Lady Sarah Lennox, is the fourth daughter of the second Duke of Richmond, there is serious inbreeding in the family. Caroline Napier's mother, Mary Bennett. joins her eleven years later, seemingly having remained in Florence.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23773/4 N° 50: died at Villa Capponi, Rev Knapp; Baptism children: GL23773 N° 16 Arthur Lennox b 24/12/33 bp 31/03/34 Rev Hutton, G23773 N° 52; Richard Henry b 11/03/36 bp 28/05/36 Rev Hutchinson, father Henry Edward capt RN mother Caroline/ Maquay Diaries: 6 Sep 1836; 21 September/ Obituary, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Napier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 5 Settembre/ 1836/ / 141/ See Bennett, for mother's tomb beside hers, also the Kellett tombs of three descendants from Captain Robert John Napier Kellett (1797-1853), Sector B/ N&Q 443. Caroline, w. of Capt. Henry Edward Napier, R.N., b. 9 Aug., 1806 ; ob. 5 Sep., 1836/DNB/NDNB entries for Henry Edward Napier/°=Charles Napier, Priscilla Napier. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Mary's husband ... ALFRED Lambert (not Arthur Lambert)
Contributor: Jacqui Mills (49682234)
Caroline Napier is the illegitimate daughter of Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond, who is her husband's relative. Mary, married to Arthur Lambert, is her sister, why they name their son 'Lennox' of the two children they bury in Sector E, E117/ FLORENCE CAROLINE LAMBERT AND GEORGE ARTHUR LENNOX LAMBERT (who die in 1850, 14 years after Caroline Napier's death). JLMaquay 6/9/1836 'Mrs Napier died last ight after an illness of 7 hours, leaves 4 children, poor woman' 21/9/1836 Maquay takes back an old servant who had been with Captain Napier, the latter now leaving as his wife is dead. Before he does so her husband spends a fortune to place on her tomb his very lengthy poem at her death. The Morning Post orbituary by way of Galignani and clearly written by her husband gives the following: 'Died on Monday, the 5th instant, at the Villa Capponi near Florence, after an illness of only fourteen hours, Caroline, wife of Captain H.R.E Napier, RN. The awfully sudden death (at the early age of thirty, and in the treacherous security of the highest health), of one so justly beloved by all who knew her, has excited the deepest sympathy in Florence and its neighbourhood, where a residence of some years has caused her worth to be known and appreciated. Beautiful, refined, and unaffected, the graces of her person were in her but faint and frail symbols of that eternal beauty of the mind which alone is imperishable; and which, while it illustrated her brief career with every act that could dignify the exalted character of a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a friend, or ennoble the active but unpretending exercise of an enlightened faith, a consistent hope, and un univrsal charity, has shed a lustre around her memory which time can never tarnish, nor oblivion efface. Her remains were attended to the grave by a circle of sorrowing friends, anxious to testify to her bereaved husband their high sense of her superior qualities, and their poignant and unfeigned grief at his immeasurable loss'. Dictionary of National Biography emtryotes that Henry Edward Napier's Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accessin of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany 'Napier, Henry Edward 1789-1853, historian, born on 5 March 1789, was son of Colonel George Napier [q.v.], younger brother of Sir Charles James Napier [q.v.], conqueror of Scinde, of Sir George Thomas Napier [q.v.], governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier [q.v.], historian and general. . . . His chief claim to notice is that he was the author of ‘Florentine History from the earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grandduke of Tuscany,’ six vols., 1846-7, a work showing much independence of judgment and vivacity of style, but marred by prolixity. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 18 May 1820, and died at 62 Cadogan Place, London, on 13 Oct. 1853. He married on 17 Nov. 1823 Caroline Bennet, a natural daughter of Charles Lennox, third duke of Richmond; she died at Florence on 5 Sept. 1836, leaving three children'. Hare, Horner cite Napier's Florentine History. Since Henry Napier's mother, Lady Sarah Lennox, is the fourth daughter of the second Duke of Richmond, there is serious inbreeding in the family. Caroline Napier's mother, Mary Bennett. joins her eleven years later, seemingly having remained in Florence.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23773/4 N° 50: died at Villa Capponi, Rev Knapp; Baptism children: GL23773 N° 16 Arthur Lennox b 24/12/33 bp 31/03/34 Rev Hutton, G23773 N° 52; Richard Henry b 11/03/36 bp 28/05/36 Rev Hutchinson, father Henry Edward capt RN mother Caroline/ Maquay Diaries: 6 Sep 1836; 21 September/ Obituary, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Napier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 5 Settembre/ 1836/ / 141/ See Bennett, for mother's tomb beside hers, also the Kellett tombs of three descendants from Captain Robert John Napier Kellett (1797-1853), Sector B/ N&Q 443. Caroline, w. of Capt. Henry Edward Napier, R.N., b. 9 Aug., 1806 ; ob. 5 Sep., 1836/DNB/NDNB entries for Henry Edward Napier/°=Charles Napier, Priscilla Napier. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Mary's husband ... ALFRED Lambert (not Arthur Lambert)
Contributor: Jacqui Mills (49682234)
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