Some 4000 hectares of today's Napier were undersea before the earthquake raised it above sea level.

The Napier earthquake of 3 February 1931 resulted in several parts of the seabed close to the city of Napier being raised above sea level.

A few months later he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Napier, of Merchistoun.

As a consequence of the 1931 earthquake, the raised seabed enabled Napier ’ s residential suburbs to spread slowly south towards Taradale and Greenmeadows as swamps were reclaimed.

Jardine, who had good relations with Lord Napier, a Scottish peer, and his family, then took the initiative to use the debacle as an opportunity to convince the British government to use force to further open trade.

In 1942, EE took over Napier & Son, an aero-engine manufacturer.

Joining Sir Hugh Gough, Napier then took part in the battle of Gujrat in February 1849, accompanied Sir Walter Gilbert as he pursued the Sikhs, and was present at the passage of the Jhelum, and the surrender of the Sikh army.

In December 1852 Napier took command of a column in the first Hazara expedition, and in the following year against the Baris on the North-West frontier.

Napier was appointed military secretary and adjutant-general to Sir James Outram, whose forces took part in the actions leading to the first relief of Lucknow on 25 September 1857.

Napier took part in the action at Sinho, the storming of the Taku ( Peiho ) Forts, and the entry to Peking.

In December 2009, He took 7 / 168 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test match against New Zealand at Napier.

In 1868, the British military expedition to Magdala, the capital of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, under Field Marshal Robert Napier, took MTTs with them to pay local expenses.

After filming a trucker movie, Napier wrote articles and took pictures for Overdrive magazine for a few years until a major truck strike in 1973 sent him back to Hollywood.

As soon as Napier took office as the Governor of Madras, he was faced with a severe famine in Ganjam District.

Napier took the initiative however, and dispatched Captain J. Charlton Smith with a garrison to occupy Port Natal.

In 1991 Taradale Rotary Club took on the project of creating a tree park on this council owned reserve under the guidance of the former Napier Council Parks and Reserves Manager Don Bell.

* Dr. Samuel Napier Robertson served as professor 1869 – 1901 and took over as principal of PWC following Anderson's move into the provincial civil service, serving until 1937.

The original trial took place between January and February 1990, resulting in all three being convicted of the murder of Peter Hurburgh, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Timothy Napier and several robberies.

In May 1833, Charles Chalmers took a lease of Merchiston Castle ( the former home of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms ) — which at that time stood in rural surroundings — and opened his academy, starting with some thirty boys.

In 1927, on the death of his friend Parry-Thomas, Railton closed the Arab factory and moved to Brooklands working for Thomson & Taylor becoming their Technical Director with responsibility for John Cobb's 1933 Napier Railton car which took the Outer Circuit record in 1933 and Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird Land Speed Record cars of 1931 to 1935.

In 1900, Beardmore took over the shipyard of Robert Napier in Govan, a logical diversification from the company's core steel forgings business.

It was decided to place a planned town here, its streets and avenues were laid out, and the new town named for Sir Charles Napier, a military leader during the " Battle of Meeanee " fought in the province of Sindh, India.

In any event, the name fitted well with other place names in the district ( Napier, Havelock and Clive ), which were also named after prominent figures in the history of British India.

Tamatea is also the name of a place in Napier.

Napier delegated to Briggs the computation of a revised table, and they later published, in 1617, Logarithmorum Chilias Prima (" The First Thousand Logarithms "), which gave a brief account of logarithms and a table for the first 1000 integers calculated to the 14th decimal place.

Tewodros freed the prisoners and sent them to Napier along with a gift of cattle to be slaughtered for the Easter holiday that was to take place on Sunday, April 12, that year.

Napier was a resident of Pacific Palisades, California, and was survived by his daughters, Jennifer Raine Bissell of Los Angeles, and Jennifer Nichols of East Haddam, Conn. His final resting place is at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory.

However, under pressure for his place in the side, Bell top-scored in England's win in Auckland in the third game of the series, with 73 runs, and then made 43 runs from 41 balls as England tied the fourth match, in Napier.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Garrard County is in the 6th Congressional District, represented by US Rep. Ben Chandler ; in the 22nd State Senatorial District represented by State Senator Tom Buford and in the 36th State Legislative District represented by State Representative Lonnie Napier.

Napier ( ; ) is a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island.

Napier Hill was the scene of a police siege of an armed criminal in May 2009, with one police officer and the gunman being killed ; and two police officers and one member of the public being wounded.

The last Napier car was designed by A. J. Rowledge, who also designed the Lion ( and who went to Rolls in 1921 ), a 40 / 50 hp 377 cu in ( 6, 177 cc ) ( 102 × 127 mm, 4 × 5 in ) alloy six with detachable cylinder head, single overhead camshaft, seven-bearing crankshaft, dual magneto and coil ignition, dual plugs, and Napier-SU carburetter ; it was bodied by Cunard, then a subsidiary.

Recognising the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, in spring, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) Napier in the Thousand Miles ( 1, 600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

Today Napier Turbochargers is a wholly self-owned company employing around 160 people, having previously been owned by Siemens Power Generation, specifically Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd being based on the same site in Lincoln when it bought the neighbouring Alstom Power Turbines in March 2003 ; Alstom ( former GEC-Alsthom ) had owned the company since GEC bought English Electric in the late 1960s.

New machines based on Archer's principles were constructed by David Napier and Son Ltd ; these were initially used in October 1853 for revenue stamps and from January 1854 for postage stamps.

* Colonel George Napier ( 1751 – 1804 ), his father ;

* Leyland L60 tank engine, used in the Chieftain tank ; similar in layout to the Junkers Jumo 205 and Napier Culverin

Incidentally, Kepler used another one of Napier's inventions for his calculations ( much more appropriate for computing planets ' orbits than his Napier's bones ): the logarithm tables ; Because of this, Kepler dedicated his Ephemeris to John Napier.

Transmitters in the North Island are located in Auckland on AM 882 kHz, Napier on AM 909 kHz and Wellington on AM 657 kHz ; a transmitter for Hamilton on AM 1494 kHz was added in 2007.

* Martin-Baker M. B. 3 ( 1942 ): a six-cannon fighter design, powered by a Napier Sabre ; Val Baker was killed in a crash while testing the prototype.

After months of planning and other preparations, the advance guard of engineers landed at Zula on the Red Sea to construct a port on 30 October 1867 ; Napier himself arrived in Zula on 2 January 1868, and on 25 January led his troops south in the Ethiopian highlands.

On the one hand, Napier made it clear to the Ethiopians that the sole intent of the British force was to rescue the imprisoned Europeans — not conquest ; on the other, Napier met with local potentates such as Ras Kassa ( the future Emperor Yohannes IV ), and arranged to purchase needed supplies with the 4. 35 million Maria Theresa Thalers ( the preferred currency of the area ) the British had purchased from the mint in Vienna.

The unveiling was attended by Mayo's son, the 7th Earl ; Lord Napier and Ettrick ; the Bishop of Carlisle Harvey Goodwin: and the Earl of Lonsdale.

By January 2007, the faulty power unit was removed from 55 022, put into storage and replaced by an ex-marine Napier Deltic engine modified for rail use ; work was complete by Royal Scots Greys dedicated team in August 2007.