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Statue of John Napier, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. John Napier of Merchiston (/ ˈ n eɪ p i ər / NAY-pee-ər; [1] Latinized as Ioannes Neper; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston.
The last of the Napier family to run the firm was Duncan Jnr's second son, John ("Jack") Napier (born 1914). Like his father and grandfather, John was a qualified herbalist, having served an apprenticeship as a chemist and obtained a qualification from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Edinburgh. At one point, he was one of only four ...
The most famous of the name was John Napier the seventeenth Laird of Merchiston who developed the system of Logarithm. [2] In 1617 he was succeeded by his son, Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier who accompanied James VI and I to claim his new throne in England. [2]
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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. A few months later he was raised to the Peerage ...
Erin Napier posted rare photos of daughter Helen in honor of her 5th birthday.
Milliken-Napier was born on 7 November 1818 into the Napier family of Merchiston, Scotland. He was the eldest son three children born to Eliza Christian Stirling and Sir William John Milliken-Napier, 8th Baronet. His elder sister was Mary Napier (wife of Robert Speir, of Burnbrae, Renfrewshire and Culdees, Perthshire) and his younger brother ...
Elizabeth Erskine was a prisoner in Edinburgh Castle in August 1645 with her sister-in-law Lilias Napier. [1] They had five children: [citation needed] Archibald (d. 1683), who succeeded as 3rd Lord Napier. John (d. 1672) Jean, who married Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, whose son, Thomas (1669–1686), became the fourth Lord Napier.