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Ian Williamson wrote:
> From Cumberland Families and Heraldry by C. Roy Hudlestone and R. S. Boumphrey, printed for the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 1978.
SCOTT, post SCOTT-NICHOLSON. 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. The founder retired in 1832, and was succ. by his nephew Hudson Scott (d. 1891, aged 83), who gave his name to the firm. In 1868 his sons Sir Benjamin Scott (1841-1927) and William Hudson Scott took over its management. The former, a magistrate, was of Linden House, Stanwix, and was six times Mayor of Carlisle; he was knighted 1904. His only dau. Maud Hope, J.P. (b. 1875), marr. 1900 Edwin Nicholson, J.P., A.R.I.B.A., of Barn Close, Carlisle. They assumed the name of Scott-Nicholson. Their only son, Christopher Scott-Nicholson (1906-45), Major Lanarkshire Yeomanry, was murdered in Damascus, while serving on General Spears’ mission to Syria; he left two daus.
Arms. Quarterly, 1 & 4, Sable a chevron Argent charged with a chevronel wavy azure between three stags’ attires within each a cross botone fitche Or (Nicholson); 2 & 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). Crests. 1, A falcon close Sable hooded Azure armed and belled Or between two crosses botone fitche Gold (Nicholson); 2, A stag’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). Motto. Age quod agis (FD7) [ie source A. C. Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, 7th ed., 1929 and 1930.]
