Arthur Napier

Arthur Sampson Napier (30 August 1853 - 10 May 1916) was a British academic.

He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University from 1885 and also Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon since 1903. Napier was also a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

References

• MacMahon, M. K. C., "Napier, Arthur Sampson", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/94131