Charles Napier Robinson

Charles Napier Robinson (27 January 1849 – 14 September 1936) was an English journalist and story writer. After a career in the Royal Navy, during which he achieved the rank of Commander,^[1] he became a journalist, specialising in naval matters.^[2]

He was a founder of the Society for Nautical Research, and a member of its Publications Committee from its establishment until his death.^[1]

His daughter Marjorie (1898–1984) married Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey.

Works

• Robinson, Charles Napier (1895), The British fleet : the growth, achievements and duties of the Navy of the Empire (2nd ed ed.), George Bell, retrieved 24 April 2016
• http://www.worldcat.org/title/china-of-to-day-or-the-yellow-peril-illustrating-the-principal-places-incidents-and-persons-connected-with-the-crisis-in-china/oclc/930685720?ht=edition&referer=br China of Today or the Yellow Peril c.1900
• Robinson, Charles Napier; Leyland, John, 1857?-1924 (1909), The British Tar in fact and fiction : the poetry, pathos, and humour of the sailor's life, Harper, retrieved 24 April 2016
• Introduction of - Cust, Charles Leopold; Robinson, Charles Napier, 1849-1936; Parker, Harry (1911), Naval battles from the collection of prints formed and owned by Commander Sir Charles Leopold Cust : the chronological arrangement of the prints with descriptive and historical notes, T. H. Parker, retrieved 24 April 2016
• Editor/Publisher of - Robinson, Charles Napier, 1849-1936 (1895), Navy and army illustrated : a magazine descriptive and illustrative of everyday life in the defensive service of the British Empire, Hudson & Kearns, etc, retrieved 24 April 2016

References

1. "Obituary". The Mariner's Mirror 23: 5. 1937. doi:10.1080/00253359.1937.10657216.
2. ‘ROBINSON, Charles Napier’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 Aug 2014