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Archibald Napier was a member of the Napier family of Merchiston, Scotland, and was the great-grandson of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms. He was the son of Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier and Lady Elizabeth Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 19th Earl of Mar .
Lord Napier died in 1645 and his only son, Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier, was forced into exile and died in the Netherlands in 1660. [ 2 ] Archibald Napier, 3rd Lord Napier petitioned to the Crown for a new patent to the barony and extended the succession to female heirs. [ 2 ]
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 a member of the Napier family of Merchiston, Scotland, and the grandson of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms. [citation needed]Around 1642 he married Lady Elizabeth Erskine (d. 1683), the eldest daughter of John Erskine, 19th (or 3rd) Earl of Mar.
Archibald was infeft in the barony of Edenbellie as heir to his father on 8 November 1548, a royal dispensation enabling him, though a minor, to feudalise his right to his paternal barony in contemplation of his marriage with Janet Bothwell, which took place about 1549. [citation needed] Napier began to clear his property of encumbrances.
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 .
Sir Robert Archibald Napier, MBE, 12th Baronet (1889–1965) Sir William Archibald Napier, 13th Baronet (1915–1990) Sir John Archibald Lennox Napier, 14th Baronet (born 1946) The heir apparent is the present holder's only son Hugh Robert Lennox Napier of Merchistoun, Younger of Napier (born 1977).
Two sturdy arms, brandishing such a weapon, form the usual crest of the family, with the above motto, Periissem ni per-iissem —'I had died, unless I had gone through with it ' ". [13] Arbuthnott [4] Crest: A peacock's head couped at the neck Proper. [14] Motto: Laus Deo [14] [Latin, 'Praise God'] [14] Chief: Keith Arbuthnott 17th Viscount of ...