Sir Robert Milliken Napier
(1818-1884)
24 June 1861

Volume 4, page 125, sitting number 4571.

Robert John Milliken-Napier was the 9th Baronet Napier of Milliken, Co. Renfrewshire. He married, in 1850, Anne Salisbury Meliora, daughter of John Ladavese Adlercron.

He died on 4 December 1884. The following obituary appeared in the Illustrated London News (20 December 1884): 'Sir Robert John Milliken Napier, of Milliken and Napier, Bart., Hon. Colonel Renfrew Militia, formerly Captain 79th Foot, died at Edinburgh on the 4th inst. He was born Nov. 7, 1818, eldest son of Sir William Napier, Bart., who was second heir male general of Archibald, third Lord Napier, March 17, 1817. Consequently, the Baronet, whose death we record was chief of the ancient family of Napier, and lineal descendant of John Napier, of Merchistoun, the inventor of logarithms. He married, April 4, 1850, Anne Salisbury Meliora, daughter of Mr John L. Aldercron, of Moyglare, county Meath, and leaves, with other issue, a son, and heir, now Sir Archibald Lennox Napier, Bart., born 1855, and married, 1880, to Mary Alison Dorothy, daughter of Sir Thomas Fairbairn, Bart.'

[From an album compiled by Margaret Tootal, wife of Edward Tootal of Weaste near Manchester, formerly a cotton manufacturer, and second daughter of James Kennedy of Ancoats near Manchester, also a cotton manufacturer.]