Family

Margaret Brisbane (née

Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....

 Napier) was a member of the Napier family

Clan Napier

Clan Napier is a Scottish clan originally from lands around Loch Lomond, but with presence in Stirlingshire, Edinburgh, Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire.-Origins of the Clan:There is some debate about the origin of the name Napier...

 of Merchiston

Merchiston

Merchiston is a prosperous, mainly residential area in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The housing is primarily a mixture of large, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian villas – several of the latter by Edward Calvert – together with a smaller number of Victorian tenements and...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, and was the great-granddaughter of John Napier

John Napier

John Napier of Merchiston – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer & astrologer, and also the 8th Laird of Merchistoun. He was the son of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston. John Napier is most renowned as the discoverer...

, the inventor of logarithms.

She was the daughter of Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier

Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier

Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier was a Scottish peer and the grandson of John Napier of Merchiston.-Biography:Archibald Napier was a nephew of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose and supported him in his Royalist endeavors. When Montrose left Scotland for Norway in 1646, Archibald Napier...

 and Lady Elizabeth Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 19th Earl of Mar.

Upon the death of her brother, Archibald Napier, 3rd Lord Napier

Archibald Napier, 3rd Lord Napier

-Family:Archibald Napier was a member of the Napier family of Merchiston, Scotland, and was the great-grandson of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms....

, the title passed through her sister Jean to her nephew Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier

Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier

Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, 4th Lord Napier was a Scottish peer.-Family:Thomas Nicholson of Carnock was the son of Jean Napier Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, 4th Lord Napier (14 January 1669 - 9 June 1688) was a Scottish peer.-Family:Thomas Nicholson of Carnock was the son of Jean Napier Thomas...

. When he, too, died unmarried and without heir, the title passed to her.

She married John Brisbane, Secretary to the Admiralty in the reign of Charles II http://heraldry.celticradio.net/search.php?id=125, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth Napier, Mistress of Napier, who in turn married Sir William Scott, 2nd Baronet of Thirlestane.

When she died in 1706, the title passed to her grandson, Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier

Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier

-Family:Born Francis Scott, he was the son of Sir William Scott, 2nd Baronet of Thirlestane, and Elizabeth Napier, Mistress of Napier. Upon the death of his maternal grandmother Margaret Brisbane, 5th Lady Napier, he achieved the title Lord Napier and changed his last name to Napier; upon the death...

, who was 4 years old.