Napper (or Napier), Richard (15591634)
British astrologer and doctor of medicine of Great Linford,
Buckinghamshire. He attended Oxford University, but never
got a degree, and in 1589 was ordained and admitted to the
rectory of Great Linford, a position he held for 44 years. He
was a pupil of astrologer Simon Forman (15521611) and, according
to William Lilly (16021681), outwent Forman in
physic and holiness of life, cured the falling-sickness perfectly
by constellated rings, and some diseases by amulets.
Sources
The Dictionary of National Biography. London Oxford University
Press, 1953.
