Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Napeir, Sir Richard

by Joseph Foster

Napeir, Sir Richard, s. Robert, of Luton Hoo, Beds. Wadham Coll., matric. 9 April, 1624, aged 16; B.A. 4 Dec., 1626, created M.A. 31 Dec., 1627, fellow All Souls' Coll. 1628, B.C.L. 15 July, 1630, created D.Med. 1 Nov., 1642, incorporated at Cambridge 1663, knighted 4 July, 1641, hon. fellow college of physicians 1664, student of Gray's Inn 1622, "a kinsman of the Duchess of Richmond"; one of the first members of the Royal Society; died 17, buried at Besselsleigh, Berks, 19 Jan., 1675-6. See Munk's Roll, i. 328; Gardiner, 71; Foster's Gray's Inn Reg.; & Fasti, i. 437, and ii. 47.