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Thomas Nicolson of Carnock (d. 1646) was a Scottish lawyer, landowner, commissioner for Stirlingshire, and postmaster.

An advocate from 1612, In 1623 Nicolson was rewarded with the office of postmaster of Cockburnspath for his assistance to John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale.[1]

In 1634 Nicholson bought Carnock House near Stirling from John Drummond the grandson of Robert Drummond of Carnock. His son John Drummond of Drummondshall married Margaret Rollo or Rollock, daughter of his business partner John Rollock, and their lands became the Bannockburn estate. Nicolson was said to have been a great patron and encourager of the minister James Guthrie.[2]

He was created Baron Nicolson, of Carnock, co. Stirling Nova Scotia on 16 January 1637, and he decorated his house at Carnock with his new heraldry in stone and plasterwork.[3]

A number of Nicholson's letters and charters are held by the National Archives of Scotland.

Nicolson married Isobel Henderson.

References

1. ^James Maidment, Letters and Papers of James the Sixth, pp. 353-4: The Melros Papers vol .2, p. 494.
2. ^Analecta vol. 3 (1843), p. 104.
3. ^Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, Volume 2 (1963), pp. 380-1: David McGibbon & Thomas Ross, The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 490-2.
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