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John Napier, also known as "Marvelous Merchiston," was born in Merchiston Castle Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland in the year 1550. John's father, Archibald Napier, married John's mother, Janet Bothwell, sister to the Bishop of Orkney, in 1549 at the age of fifteen. Archibald was knighted in 1565 and appointed Master of the Mint in 1582. A letter from John's Uncle, the Bishop of Orkney, to Archibald reveals what little we do know of John's early years:
I pray you, sir, to send your son John to school; over to France or Flanders; for he cannot learn well at home nor get profit in this most perilous world-that he may be saved in it; that he may seek honor and profit as I do not doubt that he will…
Some say it is because of this letter to Archibald when John was only eleven years old that he was admitted to St. Salvator's College in St. Andrews at the fragile age of thirteen. John's mother arranged for him to live on campus in the dormitories and made an agreement with John Rutherford,......

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