Lieutenant Colonel Sir Joseph William Lennox Napier, 4th Baronet of Merrion Square, (1 August 1895 – 13 October 1986) was a British

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and soldier who served in both the

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and

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

s. Napier married Isabelle Muriel Surtees (daughter of Major Henry Surtees) on 12 February 1931. He succeeded to the Baronetage of

Merrion Square Merrion Square () is a Georgian architecture, Georgian garden square on the Southside Dublin, southside of Dublin city centre. History The square was laid out in 1762 to a plan by John Smyth and Jonathan Barker for the estate of Richard Fitz ...

in 1915 on the death of his father, Sir William Napier, 3rd Baronet (1867–1915), and was succeeded by his son, Sir Robert Surtees Napier, 5th Baronet (1932–1994).

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Officers of the Order of the British Empire