Henry Melvill Napier (2 May 1854 – 18 December 1940) was a Scottish rugby union international who represented Scotland in the 1876–77 Home Nations rugby union matches, 1877–78 Home Nations rugby union matches, 1878–79 Home Nations rugby union matches and 1879–80 Home Nations rugby union matches.
Napier played as a forward for Glasgow University RFC and West of Scotland.
[3] Although he gained Glasgow district cap while with the university, he gained his Scotland caps while with West of Scotland.
As a founder of Napier and Miller, a shipbuilding firm based first at Yoker, Glasgow - though then part of West Dunbartonshire - in 1898; then moving to Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire in 1906.
[citation needed] Henry Napier's son Ian Napier was a Scottish World War 1 flying ace.