and the summation in Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, two vols. 1856. Napier's Memorials of Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, 1859–62, included letters of Claverhouse and other documents not previously in print. Its publication led to controversy about the drowning of the two women, Margaret Maclachlan and Margaret Wilson, known as the "Wigtown Martyrs". Napier raised doubts as to whether the execution took place; and he replied to his objectors in the Case for the Crown in re the Wigtown Martyrs proved to be Myths versus Wodrow and Lord Macaulay, Patrick the Pedlar and Principal Tulloch, 1863; and in History Rescued, in Reply to History Vindicated (by the Rev. Archibald Stewart), 1870. Napier in 1835 published a History of the Partition of Lennox; the Napiers had an historical connection with the earldom of Lennox. He also edited vols. ii. and iii. of John Spotiswood's History of the Church of Scotland for the Bannatyne Club in 1847. The Lennox of Auld, an Epistolary Review of “The Lennox” by William Fraser was published posthumously in 1880, edited by his son Francis. Family Napier married his cousin Charlotte Ogilvy (1806-1883), daughter of Alexander Ogilvy, and widow of William Dick Macfarlane, and by her had a son and a daughter: Francis John Hamilton Scott, commander in the Royal Navy, and Frances Anne, married to Lieutenant-colonel Cecil Rice. References Attribution 1798 births 1879 deaths Mark (historian) Members of the Faculty of Advocates Scottish biographers Scottish sheriffs People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish legal writers 19th-century Scottish historians 19th-century Scottish judges