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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.
The Napier family again came into possession of Merchiston Castle in 1818, when it was purchased by William Napier, 9th Lord Napier. In 1833, Lord Napier let the Tower to Charles Chalmers, who founded the Merchiston Castle School. It was sold outright to the school in 1914 by The Honourable John Scott Napier, fourteenth Laird of Merchiston (son ...
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) William Francis Cyril James Hamilton Napier, 13th Lord Napier, 4th Baron Ettrick (1900–1954)
Francis Napier may refer to: Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier (1819–1898), Scottish polyglot, diplomat and colonial administrator; Francis Napier, 15th Lord Napier (born 1962), Scottish nobleman; Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier (1702–1773), Scottish peer; Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (1758–1823), British peer and army officer
1864–1866: Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier [39] 1866– 1868 : Lord Augustus Loftus [ 40 ] Loftus becomes ambassador to Prussia's successor state, the North German Confederation
The commission was appointed in 1883, with Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, as its chairman, under William Gladstone's Liberal government of the United Kingdom. The Royal Commission had five other members and published its report, the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry Into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the ...
Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier; William Napier, 7th Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier; William Napier, 9th Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier; William Napier, 11th Lord Napier; Francis Napier, 12th Lord Napier; William Napier, 13th Lord Napier; Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier; Lord Napier; Sir William Scott, 6th Baronet
Napier was born in Naples, the fourth son of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier. [3] Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and Trinity College, Cambridge, [3] he was a Freemason who joined the Isaac Newton University Lodge whilst a student at university. [4]