He was educated at Lincoln's Inn from 1676 and matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1677.
(meta data) TITLE: NAPIER, Gerard (c.1661-89), of East Woodsford, Dorset. | History of Parliament Online # History of Parliament Online Home Research > Members > 1660-1690 > NAPIER, Gerard (c.1661-89) ## Go To Section 1386-1421 1422-1504 1509-1558 1558-1603 1604-1629 1640-1660 1660-1690 1690-1715 1715-1754 1754-1790 1790-1820 1820-1832 ## INDEX # NAPIER, Gerard (c.1661-89), of East Woodsford, Dorset. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983Available from Boydell and Brewer ## Biography Detail Family & Education Offices Held End Notes ## Related Resources 1660-1690 Members 1660-1690 Constituencies 1660-1690 Parliaments 1660-1690 Surveys ### Constituency ### Dates DORCHESTER11 Jan. - 16 Nov. 1689 ### Family and Education b. c.1661, 2nd s. of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 2nd Bt. bro. of Nathaniel Napier†. educ. L. Inn, entered 1676; Wadham, Oxf. matric. 7 Apr. 1677, aged 16. m. lic. 1 Dec. 1688, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Jacob Lucie, merchant, of Fenchurch Street, London, s.p.1 ### Offices Held J.p. and dep. lt. Dorset June 1688-d., commr. for assessment 1689. ### Biography Napier, who became his father's heir in 1679 and married the daughter of a Tory alderman and sugar-planter, presumably supported James II's religious policy, as he was appointed to county office in 1688. His residence was five miles from Dorchester, where the family was held in high esteem as the founders of Napper's Mite, the principal almshouse. He was returned for the borough at the general election of 1689 as a Tory. According to the Ailesbury list he voted to agree with the Lords that the throne was not vacant. He was appointed to a committee on a private bill and to the committee of elections and privileges for the second session. But he died suddenly on 16 Nov., and was buried at Minterne Magna.2 ### Ref Volumes: 1660-1690 ### Author: John. P. Ferris ### Notes 1. Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 125; Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 89. 2. Hutchins, i. 447; ii. 619; J. R. Woodhead, Rulers of London, 110; PCC 114 Coker; HMC Downshire, i. 319; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), viii. 236. ## Go To Section 1386-1421 1422-1504 1509-1558 1558-1603 1604-1629 1640-1660 1660-1690 1690-1715 1715-1754 1754-1790 1790-1820 1820-1832 ## INDEX
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Gerard Napier (MP for Dorchester)
Abstract.
Gerard Napier (c. 1661 – 16 November 1689), of East Woodsford, Dorset, was an English politician. 
 He was the second son of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 2nd Baronet and younger brother of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet.