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Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick, KT, PC (15 September 1819 – 19 December 1898) was a British polyglot, diplomat and colonial administrator.He served as the British Minister to the United States from 1857 to 1859, Netherlands from 1859 to 1860, Russia from 1861 to 1864, Prussia from 1864 to 1866 and as the Governor of Madras from 1866 to 1872.
Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (1758–1823) William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier (1786–1834) Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, 1st Baron Ettrick (1819–1898) William John George Napier, 11th Lord Napier, 2nd Baron Ettrick (1846–1913) Francis Edward Basil Napier, 12th Lord Napier, 3rd Baron Ettrick (1876–1941)
Napier was born in Kinsale, Ireland, on 13 October 1786. [1] He was the son of Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (1758–1823) and the father of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick (1819–1898). He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1803 and served - with distinction - as a midshipman on HMS Defiance at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).
The first Lord of Merchiston was Alexander Napier who was a prominent merchant in Edinburgh. [2] He amassed a fortune and became Provost of Edinburgh. [2] He obtained a charter for the lands of Merchiston in 1436. [2]
The baronetcy was successfully claimed in 1817 by the third Lord Napier's heir male general, the eighth Baronet. [2] The 13th Baronet settled in South Africa, where the 14th Baronet lives in Benmore Gardens. The Napier Baronetcy, of Middle Marsh in the County of Dorset, was created in the Baronetage of England on 25 June 1641 for Gerrard Napier ...
Archibald Napier, 3rd Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 15th Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 12th Lord Napier; Margaret Brisbane, 5th Lady Napier; Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier; Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier; William Napier, 7th Lord Napier; William ...
[1]: 45 He was a very close friend of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, the Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States from 1857 to 1859. [1]: 48 In the critical presidential election of 1860, with the Whig Party in disarray, Tayloe worked to elect former Senator John Bell (running as the candidate of the Constitutional Union Party).
William John George Napier was the son of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and Anne Jane Charlotte Lockwood, daughter of Robert Manners Lockwood. [1] In 1867 he married, firstly, Harriet Blake Armstrong Lumb (d. 1897), daughter of Edward Lumb of Wallington Lodge. They had two sons: [2] Francis Edward Basil Napier, 12th Lord Napier, 3rd Baron ...