Family

Archibald Napier was a member of the Napier family

Clan Napier

Clan Napier is a Scottish clan originally from lands around Loch Lomond, but with presence in Stirlingshire, Edinburgh, Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire.-Origins of the Clan:There is some debate about the origin of the name Napier...

 of Merchiston

Merchiston

Merchiston is a prosperous, mainly residential area in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The housing is primarily a mixture of large, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian villas – several of the latter by Edward Calvert – together with a smaller number of Victorian tenements and...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, and was the great-grandson of John Napier

John Napier

John Napier of Merchiston – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer & astrologer, and also the 8th Laird of Merchistoun. He was the son of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston. John Napier is most renowned as the discoverer...

, the inventor of logarithms.

He was the son of Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier

Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier

Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier was a Scottish peer and the grandson of John Napier of Merchiston.-Biography:Archibald Napier was a nephew of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose and supported him in his Royalist endeavors. When Montrose left Scotland for Norway in 1646, Archibald 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

Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier

Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, 4th Lord Napier was a Scottish peer.-Family:Thomas Nicholson of Carnock was the son of Jean Napier Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, 4th Lord Napier (14 January 1669 - 9 June 1688) was a Scottish peer.-Family:Thomas Nicholson of Carnock was the son of Jean Napier Thomas...

, by a special arrangement of the title. http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/NAN_NEW/NAPIER_AND_ETTRICK_FRANCIS_NAPI.html