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, he became a journalist, specialising in naval matters.

He was born in Kent in 1849, the son of Anne and Alexander Robinson, an officer in the Royal Navy. In 1882 at St. George's church in Bloomsbury in London he married Alice Wilson (1862-).

Between 1895 and 1903 he was the editor of the periodical The Navy and Army Illustrated. He was a founder of the Society for Nautical Research and was a member of the original Council of 1910-11. In 1921 he became a Vice-President and in 1931 was appointed an Honorary Vice-President. After his long and a distinguished service in the Royal Navy he became the Naval Correspondent for The Times, a position he held for 45 years. His book The British Fleet, the Growth, Achievements, and Duties of the Navy of the Empire (1894) became essential reading for naval officers from many countries.

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.), 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)