James Napier (chemist)
James Napier FRSE FCS (1810 - 1 December 1884) was a Scottish industrial chemist and antiquarian. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[1]
Contents
Life
James was born in Partick, Glasgow the son of James Napier, a gardener, and Margaret Buchanan, a seamstress.
In October 1831 he married Christina McIndoe. They had eight children.
Napier made several important advances within industrial chemistry and lodged several patents.
He joined the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1849, and many of his 32 known scientific papers were presented to the Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1876.
After his wife died in March 1881, he never fully recovered from the event, and he died at his home, Maryfield, Bothwell, Lanarkshire on 1 December 1884.[2]
Publications
Amongst his publications are:
- Manufacturing Art in Ancient Times
- Notes and Reminiscences of Partick
- Folk Lore or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century (1879)
References
External links
- Works by James Napier at Project Gutenberg
- Lua error in Module:Internet_Archive at line 573: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This Scottish business-related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
  |
This biographical article about a Scottish scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This article about a Scottish writer, poet or playwright is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Use British English from December 2014
- Use dmy dates from November 2012
- Pages using Template:Post-nominals with customized linking
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- 1810 births
- 1884 deaths
- 19th-century Scottish people
- People from Glasgow
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Clan Napier
- Scottish chemists
- Scottish antiquarians
- Scottish businesspeople
- Scottish folklorists
- Scottish historians
- 19th-century Scottish writers
- Victorian writers
- 19th-century antiquarians
- Scottish business biography stubs
- Scottish scientist stubs
- Scottish writer stubs
