Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari KCB CSI (1841–1879),
British military administrator, was the son of Count Louis Adolphus Cavagnari, of an old
Italian family from
Parma in the service of the
Bonaparte family, by his marriage in 1837 with an
Anglo-Irish lady, Caroline Lyons-Montgomery. Cavagnari was born at
Stenay, in the
Meuse département,
France, on 4 July 1841.