Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 459
t of this family. It would seem that the late William Makepeace Thackeray didnot altogether like this crest, and that he consequently designedanother, of which we here give a copy from his letter-stamp. Acoronet is transfixed with three darts (not arrows) placed in paleand saltire : the first (in… … NOBILITAS SOLA VIRTUS. (The present Motto of the Thackerays.) Some early notices of the name of Thackwra have been publishedby the Surtees Society in their volume of Memorials of the Abbey ofSt. Mary of Fountains, collected and edited by John Richard Walbran,F.S.A., 8vo. 1863 (pp. 343, 380, 409,…
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