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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Napier    
First Name(s)  Francis    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Ninth Baron of Merchistoun, First Baron Ettrick    
Birth Year  1819    
Death Year  1898    
Entry  Governor : born 1819 : son of eighth Baron : succeeded as Peer in 1834 : educated privately, at Saxe Meiningen, and Trinity College, Cambridge : entered the diplomatic service, 1840 : served as Attache and Secretary at several places : Ambassador at St. Petersburg, 1860-4; Berlin, 1864-6: Governor of Madras, March, 1866, to Feb. 1872 : specially concerned himself with questions affecting the public health, and public works, including irrigation, and such schemes as the Periyar project : on Lord Mayo's assassination, he, as the Senior Governor in India, officiated as Viceroy and Governor-General from Feb. 23 to May 3, 1872 : created Baron Ettrick, 1872 : worked for some years, presiding and speaking at meetings and congresses, and on the London School Board : presided over the Royal Commission on the Scottish Crofters, 1883 : LL.D. of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Harvard : died Dec. 19, 1898.    
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