Nathaniel Napier

For other people named Nathaniel Napier, see Nathaniel Napier (disambiguation).

Sir Nathaniel Napier (died 6 September 1635), of Middlemarsh Hall and Moor Crichel in Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). He was born c.1587, the only son of Sir Robert Napier, a judge and MP, who held the office of Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his second wife Magdalen Denton. He was knighted in 1617. He represented Dorset (1625), Wareham (1625-6) and Milborne Port (1628-9) in the House of Commons during the 1620s, and also served a year as High Sheriff of Dorset. Sir Nathaniel also built the family mansion of Crichel House at Moor Crichel. He is remembered in Dorchester for building the Napier Almshouses from money left by his father for that purpose: this was one of many charitable projects inspired by the Great Fire of 1613. He married c.1599 Elizabeth Gerrard of Purbeck ( died 1624) : according to one historian he was not quite twelve at the time of the marriage and the bride two years younger. ^[1]They had six sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Gerrard, was also an MP from 1628 and was created a baronet in 1641.

References

1. ^ Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 p.225

• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [1]
• Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1844) [2]
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

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