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    China. Napier was born in Kinsale, Ireland, on 13 October 1786. He was the son of Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (1758–1823) and the father of Francis Napier...
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    Edinburgh. Napier's father was Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston Castle, and his mother was Janet Bothwell, daughter of the politician and judge Francis Bothwell...
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    General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB (/ˈneɪpiər/ NAY-pee-ər; 10 August 1782 – 29 August 1853) was an officer and veteran of the British Army's Peninsular...
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  • Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord Napier (23 February 1758 – 1 August 1823) was a British peer and army officer. Napier was born in Ipswich in 1758, the son...
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    death in 1804. George Napier was the younger son of Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier and his wife Henrietta Maria Johnston. Napier was commissioned into...
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  • Barbara Napier or Naper was a Scottish woman involved in the 1591 North Berwick witch trials. Details of charges against her survive, and she was found...
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    opened to the public, bearing the namesake of its governor, Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier. The Indo-Saracenic structure lacks an air conditioning system...
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    Admiral Sir Charles John Napier KCB GOTE (6 March 1786 – 6 November 1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service...
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    Merchiston Tower (category Clan Napier)
    reacquired by the Napier of Merchiston family when Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier bought it in 1752. In 1772, a year before the sixth Lord's death, the Tower...
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  • only daughter of Francis Bothwell, lord of session, by his first wife Janet Richardson, Napier had two sons and one daughter: John Napier the scientist and...
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