Nicolson Chief for over three hundred years.
This book is a companion to FOR THE ANCIENT RACE
THE CLAN NICOLSON
MACNEACAIL
OF SCOTLAND
AND SEPTS
also written by A L Bryan Nicolson
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The Right Hon. David Henry Arthur Nicolson
The 4th Baron Carnock
Baronet of Carnock
Baronet of Lasswade
The Chief of Clan Nicolson
AUTHOR: A L Bryan Nicolson of TARANSAY
Hon.DLitt, FSA Scot, G.C.E.Tr.
I
first came to my Scottish Ancestry when I was about eight years old, although
there was not anyone in my immediate family who wore a kilt, played a bagpipe
or spoke the Gaelic language. All this would fall to me being taught to play
the bagpipe from the age of eleven years. At this time a Pipeband was formed at
Sunderland in 1957. Fortunately for me the place where members held their first
weekly practices was in the village where I lived at the time. When I was two
years old I had heard a Pipeband play at Durham, and this was my first hearing
of the bagpipe, something must have stirred in me and consciousness, and has
never left me. The science of heraldry came to me when I was on a visit to
Durham Cathedral with my parents, when I was eight years old, and has been with
me from that time. I find heraldry a most fascinating subject, especially the
artwork and its coming together and final construction.
I knew that we were of Scottish descent,
but not much more and at the earliest time did not know we were one of the most
ancient of the Scottish Clans.
I hope what I have put together and
correlated what will be regarded as a working tool on the subject, and all who
come to it will find the work to be of great interest.
I send my best wishes to all those of
the Clan Nicolson and to those who are a Sept of the name, you are a welcome
part of the family.
SIOL NICAIL
It is with great pleasure, at long last, that I have set down these letters received from David Nicolson the 4th Lord Carnock, over a span of many years. Dealing with the Chiefship of Clan Nicolson and other matters of Nicolson history and Heraldry, and with reference to family genealogy. The final and deciding matter of the Nicolson Chiefship, would come to Lord Carnock recognised at the Court of the Lord Lyon 3rd Sept 1983. Lord Carnock died on Boxing Day, 2008. The Chiefship would now fall to his cousin, Adam Nicolson, the 5th Lord Carnock, with the Chiefship would be the baronetcy denominated Lasswade, which is an additional baronetcy for the Carnock family. Further to that is the Chiefly Arms of Nicolson. David Nicolson 4th Lord Carnock, would be the first Nicolson Chief in over three hundred years.
A. L. Bryan Nicolson
