William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Baron Napier (1786 – 1834). British Royal Navy officer and trade envoy in China.
Napier was the first British representative to suggest seizing Hong Kong. In a dispatch to Lord Palmerston on 14 August 1834, he suggested a commercial treaty, backed by an armed force, be done to secure the rights and interests of European merchants in China. He recommended that a small British force "should take possession of the Island of Hongkong, in the eastern entrance of the Canton River, which is admirably adapted for every purpose".
- "He also had red hair, thus fulfilling the Chinese stereotype of the 'red-haired barbarian devil'". https://books.google.it/books?id=Db73DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76...
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