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Archibald Napier, son of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms, served as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King James VI of Scotland (I of England) and as a Lord of Session. On 2 March 1627 he was created a baronet, "of Merchistoun in the County of Midlothian", in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia .
Archibald Napier was the son of the 1st Lord Napier. As a nephew of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Napier supported him in his Royalist endeavours. When Montrose left Scotland for Norway in 1646, Napier accompanied him. When Montrose returned, Napier stayed in Germany and Belgium.
Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier, the 9th Laird Napier of Merchiston (c. 1576 – November 1645), was a Scottish politician and judge. In 1627 he was created Lord Napier of Merchiston and Baronet of Nova Scotia .
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.
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).
Major (Francis) Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier, 5th Baron Ettrick, KCVO, OStJ, DL (5 December 1930 – 15 March 2012), was a Scottish soldier and courtier. [1] He was the son of Lt.-Colonel William Napier, 13th Lord Napier and 4th Baron Ettrick, and Violet Muir Newson, daughter of Sir Percy Wilson Newson, 1st Bt.
Lt. Col. William Francis Cyril James Hamilton Napier, 13th Lord Napier, 4th Baron Ettrick DL (9 September 1900 – 23 August 1954) was a Scottish soldier and courtier. He was the eldest son of Francis Napier, the 12th Lord Napier and his wife Hon. Clarice Jessie E. Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 9th Lord Belhaven and Stenton.
He was the son of Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier and Lady Elizabeth Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 19th Earl of Mar. Archibald died unmarried and childless, and the Lordship of Napier passed through his sister Jean to his nephew Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier, by a special arrangement of the title. [citation needed]