James Napier (1810 – 1 December 1884) was a Scottish industrial chemist and antiquarian. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Life James was born in June 1810 in Partick, Glasgow the son of James Napier, a gardener, and Margaret Buchanan, a seamstress. He was apprenticed as a dyer and attended extramural classes in chemistry at Glasgow University under Prof Thomas Graham. 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. His proposers were James Young, George Forbes, Lord Kelvin, and John Hutton Balfour. 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. Family In October 1831 he married Christina McIndoe. They had eight children. 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 1810 births 1884 deaths 19th-century Scottish scientists Scientists from Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh James Scottish chemists Scottish antiquarians Scottish folklorists 19th-century Scottish historians Victorian writers 19th-century antiquarians Fellows of the Chemical Society 19th-century Scottish businesspeople