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Text of the Holmston ScrollSamuel Hunter, Headmaster of Holmston Public School, Ayr, on behalf
of the said School, having by Petition unto the Lord Lyon King of Arms
of date 8 March 1950 Shown; That the said School, formerly
Smith's Institution, was established in 1825 by a legacy of
£2000 from Captain John Smith, Mariner, a native of Ayr, for the
purpose of educating poor children belonging to the town and
parish of Ayr, under the management of the Provost and Magistrates of the
said Burgh of Ayr: That the said School, which came under the management of the
School Board in 1873, is now administered by the Education Committee of
the County Council of Ayr under the provisions of the Local Government (Scotland) Act,
1929; and in 1930 adopted the name of Holmston Public School:
That Ensigns Armorial were recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland on 23 June 1931 in name of the said County Council of Ayr: And the Petitioner having prayed that the aforesaid Ensigns Armorial might be matriculated of new in the said Public Register suitably differenced for the said School, the Lord Lyon King of Arms by Interlocutor of date 14 March 1950 granted Warrant to the Lyon Clerk to matriculate in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland in name of the Petitioner on behalf of the said School the following Ensigns Armorial, videlicet:- per pale, dexter, Gules, issuant from the sea in base undy Azure and Argent, a castle triple towered of the last, masoned Sable, windows and port of the first, the towers capped by pointed turrets Vert each having a ball Or; sinister, Vert, a comet paleways Or in chief and in base a book expanded proper, and in an Escrol below the same this Motto ALTIORA SEQUAMUR. Matriculated the twenty-seventh day of April, 1950.
Extracted furth of the 149th page of the 37th Volume of the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland this twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifty. (Signed) H.A.B. Lawson, for Clerk, Keeper of the Records. Click here to return to Holmston History, page 6-4. There's a photo here of the old Ayr Fort in the mid-19th Century. The tower in Holmston's Coat of Arms is taken from the one in Ayrshire County Council's Arms, probably based on the Ayr Fort.
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