His Hon. Thomas Bateman Napier LLD (1854-6 November 1933), was a British

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politician and judge.

Family

He was a son of Richard Clay Napier of Preston, and Sarah Bateman of

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. He was educated at

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and

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. He married first in 1882, Florence Emily Roberts of

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, who died in 1915. They had one son who was killed in the Great War, and two daughters. He married second in 1917, Mrs Amy Julia Tootal who died in 1923.

Legal career

During his student days he gained the Incorporated Law Society's Clifford Inn Prize, and Scot. Scholarship, and the Council of Legal Educated's first class International and Roman Law Exhibition, and other law scholarships and prizes. He took a first class in Law at the

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; honours at Bar Call. Examination. He was elected Fellow and Member of Senate, University of London, in 1895. He became a Justice of the Peace in Middlesex, 1895. He wrote a Concise Practice of the Supreme Court of Justice; The New Land Taxes, 1909–1910. He became Judge of County Courts, in Derbyshire, in 1912.

Political career

He was a Member of the

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from 1893 to 1906. He contested

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as a Liberal candidate in 1895. He was twice Chairman of Corporate Property, and three times Chairman of Parliamentary Committee, of the London County Council. He sat as Liberal MP for the

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Division of Kent from 1906 to 1910. He had gained the seat from the Conservatives at the 1906 General Election but lost it to them at the next General Election in January 1910. He did not stand for parliament again. He was a co-opted Member of the London Educated Committee, 1915. He became a Governor of Rugby School, in 1927.Who Was Who

Sources

*Who Was Who *British parliamentary election results 1885–1918, Craig, F. W. S.

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*Who Was Who; http://www.ukwhoswho.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Napier, Thomas Bateman 1854 births 1933 deaths UK MPs 1906–1910 Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of London County Council Alumni of the University of London People educated at Rugby School English King's Counsel 20th-century English judges Progressive Party (London) politicians County Court judges (England and Wales)