Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet (c. 1668 – 24 February 1728), of Moor Crichel, Dorset, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the English House of Commons from 1695 to 1708 and in the British House of Commons from 1710 to 1722.

Napier was the only surviving son of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 2nd Baronet, MP and his wife Blanche Wyndham, the daughter and coheiress of judge Sir Hugh Wyndham of Silton, Dorset. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1683 and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford 10 April 1685, aged 16.[1]

In 1709, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy and Crichel House. He married Jane Worsley, the daughter of Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet, MP, of Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight in July 1691 but she died in 1692. He married secondly on 28 August 1694, Catherine Alington, the daughter of William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington, MP.[2]

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