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name: Priscilla Hayter Napier
about: Priscilla Napier was born in 1908 in Oxford and spent her childhood in Egypt, where her father, Sir William Hayter, was financial adviser to the Egyptian government. She holds an honors degree in history from Oxford. Her husband, Trevylyan Napier, a naval officer, was killed in action in 1940. Mrs. Napier, who has a son and two daughters, published a book of poetry in the early forties and, in 1966, A Late Beginner, an account of her childhood.