Arthur Sampson Napier FBA (1853–1916) was a British philologist. He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, from 1885 and also Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon since 1903. Napier was appointed a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1885 and of the British Academy in 1904.
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30 August 1853 Wilmslow, England
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Died |
10 May 1916 (aged 62)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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