{"id":5555,"date":"2025-06-18T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/?page_id=5555"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:03:43","slug":"christopher-scott-nicholson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wwii\/carliol\/christopher-scott-nicholson\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Scott-Nicholson"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5555\" data-postid=\"5555\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5555 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_cuzr670 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_izvx670 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_bryl670   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2><strong>Key Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Christopher Scott-Nicholson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>DoB:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a028 January 1906<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Regt: <\/strong><\/span>Major<\/p>\n<p>68180, 156 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Persia and Iraq Forces. Field Regt., Royal Artillery<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>DoD:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>30\/05\/1945 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 39<\/p>\n<p>Buried:<\/p>\n<p>DAMASCUS COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Academic Career<\/strong>: CGS 1914-16; Clifton College; Magdalen College, Oxford 1923<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Other:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Biographical Information<\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_jhjq670 last\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_nlv67 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scott-Nicholson.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-5948\" title=\"Scott-Nicholson\" alt=\"Scott-Nicholson\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scott-Nicholson.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scott-Nicholson-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_efrs247 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_d4fy247 first\">\n                    <!-- module accordion -->\n<div  class=\"module module-accordion tb_9ske247 \" data-behavior=\"accordion\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    \n    <ul class=\"ui module-accordion   gray\">\n            <li class=\"builder-accordion-active\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-0\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-0-content\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n                                                            Family Background                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-0-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" class=\"accordion-content tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_8pln247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_pjv7247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_xjcn247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><strong>Family Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Son of Edwin and Maud Hope Scott-Nicholson; husband of Miriam Stafford Scott-Nicholson, of Lockerbie Dumfriesshire. B.A.(Oxon.).<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-1\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-1-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Academic Record                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-1-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_qpte247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_qslb247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_0ykd247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><strong>Academic Record<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-2\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-2-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            War Record                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-2-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_b254247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_g45w247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ccj2247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><strong>War Service<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Major<\/p>\n<p>68180, 156 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt., Royal Artillery<\/p>\n<p>Killed during the shelling of the Orient palace Hotel, Damascus. He was engaged in the \u201cO.C.P.\u201d harvesting of grain in the Syrian and Lebanese area.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-3\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-3-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Other                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-3-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-3\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_hez9247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_7j5q247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ko31247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><strong>Other:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Williamson wrote:<br>\u00a0<br>&gt; From Cumberland Families and Heraldry by C. Roy Hudlestone and R. S. Boumphrey, printed for the Cumberland &amp; Westmorland Antiquarian &amp; Archaeological Society, 1978.<br>SCOTT, post SCOTT-NICHOLSON.\u00a0 Benjamin Scott (d. 1846, aged 83), descended from a Caldbeck family, founded in 1799 in English Street, Carlisle, a printing and bookselling business, which eventually became one of the leading firms in the city and is now a branch of the Metal Box Co.\u00a0 The founder retired in 1832, and was succ. by his nephew Hudson Scott (d. 1891, aged 83), who gave his name to the firm.\u00a0 In 1868 his sons Sir Benjamin Scott (1841-1927) and William Hudson Scott took over its management.\u00a0 The former, a magistrate, was of Linden House, Stanwix, and was six times Mayor of Carlisle; he was knighted 1904.\u00a0 His only dau. Maud Hope, J.P. (b. 1875), marr. 1900 Edwin Nicholson, J.P., A.R.I.B.A., of Barn Close, Carlisle.\u00a0 They assumed the name of Scott-Nicholson.\u00a0 Their only son, Christopher Scott-Nicholson (1906-45), Major Lanarkshire Yeomanry, was murdered in Damascus, while serving on General Spears&#8217; mission to Syria; he left two daus.<br>Arms. Quarterly, 1 &amp; 4, Sable a chevron Argent charged with a chevronel wavy azure between three stags&#8217; attires within each a cross botone fitche Or (Nicholson); 2 &amp; 3, Or upon a mount issuant from the base a cross pattee Gules between four human hearts of the second the mount charged with a like heart of the field in the centre point (for distinction) an ermine spot Gold (Scott).\u00a0 Crests. 1, A falcon close Sable hooded Azure armed and belled Or between two crosses botone fitche Gold (Nicholson); 2, A stag&#8217;s head Gules attired and seme of human hearts Or holding in the mouth a Gillyflower of the first leaved and slipped Proper and charged (for distinction) with an ermine spot Gold (Scott).\u00a0 Motto. Age quod agis (FD7) [ie source A. C. Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, 7th ed., 1929 and 1930.]<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-4\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-4-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Sources                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-4-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_7ain247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_yhbi247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6um9247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CGS Memorial Register<\/p>\n<p>*CGS Record of Service in HM Forces (Archives Carlisle)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Carliol Magazine July 1945<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt; From Cumberland Families and Heraldry by C. Roy Hudlestone and R. S. Boumphrey, printed for the Cumberland &amp; Westmorland Antiquarian &amp; Archaeological Society, 1978.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n\n<\/div><!-- \/module accordion -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Information Name:\u00a0Christopher Scott-Nicholson DoB:\u00a028 January 1906 Regt: Major 68180, 156 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Persia and Iraq Forces. 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