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On his death in 1683 the baronetcy became dormant (it was later revived, see the Napier Baronetcy of Merchistoun) while he was succeeded in the Lordship (according to the new patent) by his nephew Sir Thomas Nicolson, 4th Baronet, of Carnock, who became the 4th Lord Napier. He was the son of Sir Thomas Nicolson, 3rd Baronet, of Carnock by his ...
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).
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.
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.
In 1754 he married Mary Cathcart, a daughter of Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart, and they had a son, Francis Napier. He achieved the title Lord Napier in 1773, two years before his death, at which point it passed to his son. His daughter Mary (1756–1806) married Very Rev Andrew Hunter.
Upon the death of his maternal grandmother Margaret Brisbane, 5th Lady Napier in 1706, he succeeded to the title, Lord Napier, and legally changed his surname to Napier; upon the death of his father in 1725, he succeeded to the baronetcy of Scott, of Thirlestane in the County of Selkirk. The titles have been united ever since. [1]
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]
Lord Napier, a broken and humiliated man, was allowed to return to Macao by land and not by ship as requested. Suffering a fever, he died a few days later. Jardine, who had good relations with Lord Napier, a Scottish peer, and his family, then took the initiative to use the debacle as an opportunity to convince the British government to use ...