Records of the Napier family, shipbuilders and marine engineers, Glasgow, Scotland 1800-1971

University of Glasgow (1451- : Glasgow, Scotland)

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These are Economic History lecture notes, possibly a lecturer's own notes. There are 6 notebooks within a slipcase. On the slipcase is written in pencil "Dr James Cunnison? Alec Macfie?" The identification of the author of these notes is not certain. There is one letter within volume 6 addressed to Dr Cunnison, but without a comparison of handwriting it has not possible to assign these notes to Dr Cunnison. References within the notes would indicate that they were written after 1924. ...

Napier, David, 1790-1869

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Napier

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David Napier ( 1790-1869 ), was the son of John Napier and was born in Dumbarton on 10th November 1790 . He was educated at elementary level at Dumbarton Public School. He moved to Glasgow in 1802 when his father moved his business to new premises in the Jamaica Street area of the city. In Glasgow he was taught drawing and mathematics by Peter Nicholson, a well-known authority on architecture. By the age of twenty he had learned much of his father's trade and on the death of his fat...

Napier, James Robert 1821-1879

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Napier, Robert, 1791-1876

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Thomson, William, 1824-1907, Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

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