Crossword-Solution: NICHOLSON 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Brinsley Nicholson raised this question in _Notes and Queries_ in 1889, and by his research it is possible to antedate the practice by nearly forty years.

From Kirby Stephen Clement removed to Carlisle, where he was employed by Forster and Sons during the next two years at the same description of work; and he conducted himself, according; to their certificate on his leaving their employment to proceed to Glasgow in 1807, "with great sobriety and industry, entirely to their satisfaction." While working at Glasgow as a turner, he took lessons in drawing from Peter Nicholson, the well-known writer on carpentry--a highly ingenious man.

The officer of my watch, the late Sir Frederick Nicholson, together with the interpreter, were ordered to land and communicate with the chief mandarin.

Did you see a silly tale, _John Nicholson’s Predicament_, {220} or some such name, in which I made free with your home at Murrayfield? There is precious little sense in it, but it might amuse.

When Koenig consulted him on the subject, Nicholson observed that "seventeen years before he had taken out a patent for machine printing, but he had abandoned it, thinking that it wouldn't do; and had never taken it up again." Indeed, the two machines were on different principles.