Lord Napier

Earlier that year, he already held the Napier Baronetcy, of Merchistoun in the County of Midlothian, created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

On 2 March 1627 he was created a baronet, "of Merchistoun in the County of Midlothian", in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

He was the son of Sir Thomas Nicolson, 3rd Baronet, of Carnock by his wife the Hon.

The 4th Lord Napier died unmarried at an early age and was succeeded in the Baronetcy by his cousin and heir male (see the Baron Carnock for later history of this title) and in the Lordship by his aunt, the fifth Lady Napier, the wife of John Brisbane.

He was the son of Sir William Scott, 2nd Baronet, of Thirlestane by his wife Elizabeth, Mistress of Napier.

As of 2017[update] the titles are held by his great-great-great-grandson, the fifteenth Lord, who succeeded his father in 2012.

1999) The heir presumptive of the Barony of Ettrick and the Scott baronetcy is the present holder's brother, Hon.

Coat of arms of the Lord Napier of Merchistoun, Baron Ettrick of Ettrick, Baronet of Nova Scotia: Napier (arms of feudal Earls of Lennox, a title inherited by King James I & VI from his father Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley ) quartering Scott [ 1 ]
Arms of Napier (same arms as Earl of Lennox): Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses gules
Arms of Scott (of Buccleuch, Scotland): Or, on a bend Azure a mullet of six points between two crescents of the first