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.

Others ( including primatologist John Napier, who published before Dahinden and Krantz ) have expressed a different opinion, contending it was " likely that Patterson would have used 24 frame / s " because it " is best suited to TV transmission ," while conceding that " this is entirely speculative.

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.

John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC ( born June 7, 1929 ) is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984.

Cunard's major backer was Robert Napier, who was the Royal Navy's supplier of steam engines.

In 1921, Selwyn Edge ( who had been with Napier & Son ) bought shares in the company and was appointed governing director.

Forster is the stepson of actor Whit Bissell, step-grandson of actor Alan Napier, who portrayed Alfred the Butler in the Batman television series ( 1966 – 1968 ), and the great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens.

The first European to see the future site of Napier was Captain James Cook, who sailed down the east coast in October 1769.

* In Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman, the character of Jack Napier ( who later and as a result of this event becomes the Joker ), played by Jack Nicholson, prominently wears black leather gloves during his robbery of the Axis Chemicals business office.

Upon trying to escape from the Gotham City Police and encountering Batman, played by Michael Keaton, in the chemical plant, Napier shoots Batman who deflects the bullet with his own bullet-proof leather glove.

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.

Many of the white farmers in this district, unlike their fellows dwelling farther north, were willing to accept British rule, and this fact induced Mr Justice Menzies, one of the judges of Cape Colony then on circuit at Colesberg, to cross the Orange and proclaim ( October 1842 ) the country British territory, a proclamation disallowed by the governor, Sir George Napier, who, nevertheless, maintained that the emigrant farmers were still British subjects.

The town was founded on 15 October 1872 by Danish, Norwegian and Swedish settlers, adherents of Scandinavism, who arrived at the port of Napier and moved inland.

But in the meantime Lisbon fell into the hands of the Duke of Terceira, who had left Oporto earlier in the Liberal fleet commanded by Charles John Napier, disembarked in the Algarve and marched across the Alentejo to defeat the Miguelist General Teles Jordão ( seizing the city on July 24 ).

Their appeal reached Donald McLean, a government official and politician who was a major landowner in the Napier region.

Here Lord Ellenborough's policy led Napier to Sindh Province ( Scinde ), for the purpose of quelling the insurrection of the Muslim rulers who had remained hostile to the British Empire following the First Anglo-Afghan War.

Napier was the son of Major Charles Frederick Napier, who was wounded at the storming of Meester Cornelis ( now Jatinegara ) in Java on ( 26 August 1810 ) and died some months later.

* General Sir Robert Napier, who commanded the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868 and captured the fortress of Magdàla, was created Baron Napier of Magdala in 1868.

It was the first international motor race to be held in Great Britain, an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in Paris driving a Napier.

This was received through the efforts of Lord Napier and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, British ambassadors to the Sublime Porte, who secured the necessary firman in 1854.

The mosaic and stained glass were the work of the one-armed Australian muralist Napier Waller, who had lost his right arm at Bullecourt during World War I and learned to write and create his works with his left arm.

It was the first international motor race to be held in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in Paris driving a Napier.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

The centrally located 450 hp Napier Lion engine had side-mounted radiators which could be retracted in flight to achieve additional streamlining.

Further south Acton Vale had famous names including Napier & Son ( engines ), H. Bronnley & Co ( Soaps ), Evershed & Vignoles ( electrical equipment ), Lucas CAV ( automotive electrical ), Vandervell Products ( bearings ), T. Wall & Son ( Wall's Sausages and Wall's Ice Cream ) and Wilkinson Sword ( swords and razors ).

Their oldest son Reverend Robert Napier Raikes had a son General Robert Napier Raikes of the Indian Army.

The British choice of green is partly due to the event being held in Ireland, which at the time is part of the UK, and to precedent as the winning Napier of 1902 had been painted olive green.

This event became the basis of a widely-circulated postwar tall tale that the captain of this U-boat, Heinrich Timm, had led crewmen ashore near Napier to milk cows in order to supplement their meagre rations.

At the 2006 census, Napier had a population of 55, 359, an increase of 1698 people, or 3. 2 percent, since the 2001 census.

Napier had an unemployment rate of 4. 8 percent of people 15 years and over, compared to 5. 1 percent nationally.

A group of prisoners working at Bluff Hill in Napier had four of their number buried in a landslip by the quake.

Napier had been taken over by English Electric in 1942.

Today Napier is no longer in the engine business, with the ending of the Deltic sales in the 1960s they had no new modern designs to offer.

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.

Like Cochran, Napier Field was a large permanent Air Corps Base and most of us were quite content to stay on the camp when we had time off.

When the General Napier heard that the Talpur Amir had demobilised his Baloch army he turned back his army and again threatened Hyderabad.

Before the war, Napier had been working on an aviation diesel design known as the Culverin after licensing versions of the Junkers Jumo 204.

He had also considered the new and powerful Napier Sabre and Bristol Centaurus engines.

Napier volunteered to return to the Iberian Peninsula in 1810 to fight again against Napoleon in Portugal-notably in the Battle of the Côa, where he had two horses shot out from under him, in the Battle of Bussaco, in the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, and in the Battle of Badajoz ( 1812 ) ( the second siege of Badajoz ) in Castile, Spain, in which he was a lieutenant colonel in the 102nd regiment.

However upon arriving once again in India, Napier found that this had already been accomplished by Lord Gough and his army.

The city of Karachi in Sindh ( Pakistan ) earlier had a Napier Road ( now Shahrah-e-Altaf Hussain ), Napier Street ( now Mir Karamali Talpur Road ) and Napier Barracks ( now Liaquat Barracks ) on Shara-e-Faisal.