Arthur Napier

Arthur Sampson Napier FBA (1853–1916) was a British philologist.^[3] He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, from 1885^[1] and also Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon since 1903.^{[citation needed]} Napier was appointed a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1885^[4][5] and of the British Academy in 1904.^[6]

Arthur Napier FBA
Born	Arthur Sampson Napier (1853-08-30)30 August 1853 Wilmslow, England
Died	10 May 1916(1916-05-10) (aged 62)
Spouse	Mary ​ (m. 1879)​ ^[1]
Academic background
Alma mater	Owens College Exeter College, Oxford University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor	Julius Zupitza^[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Philology
Institutions	Merton College, Oxford
Notable students	Roger Sherman Loomis^[2] Kenneth Sisam

Born in Wilmslow on 30 August 1853,^[3] Napier studied at Owens College, Exeter College, Oxford, and the University of Göttingen.^[7]

Napier was also an avid collector of the Oxford college stamp issues and gave talks and displays on this subject. He also wrote many articles for Gibbons Stamp Monthly on the college stamp issues. He was Vice President of the Oxford Philatelic Society from 1892 onwards.^{[citation needed]}

Napier died on 10 May 1916.^[8]

References

Footnotes

1. Ker & Lapidge 2002, p. 92.
2. Ker & Lapidge 2002, p. 109.
3. MacMahon 2004.
4. Foster 1891, p. 1006.
5. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 2.
6. Ker & Lapidge 2002, p. 95.
7. Ker & Lapidge 2002, pp. 91–92.
8. Ker & Lapidge 2002, p. 96.

Bibliography

• Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Vol. 3. Oxford: James Parker & Co.
• Hughes, A. M. (2016). Oxford Philatelic Society: A History. Oxford: Oxford Philatelic Society. pp. 15, 17, 33, 51.
• Ker, Neil Ripley; Lapidge, Michael (2002). "Arthur Sampson Napier, 1853–1916". In Lapidge, Michael (ed.). Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 91–116. ISBN 978-0-19-726277-1.
• MacMahon, M. K. C. (2004). "Napier, Arthur Sampson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94131.

Academic offices
New office	Merton Professor of English Language and Literature 1885–1916	Vacant Title next held by H. C. K. Wyld
Preceded by John Earle	Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon 1903–1916	Succeeded by William Craigie as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon