Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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of England, r603. Founder of Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh (opened
r597). Was granted imposition on sugar for three years, r620.
In Walter Scott's Fortunes of Nigel he appears as ' Jingling
Geordie'.

Charles Albert Coffin, by Henry Hering.
Burns, Coinage oJ Scotland, II, p. 382, states: "The mint
(Edinburgh) instead of being worked directly on His Majesty's
account, was set in tack (as before) to certain parties, among whom
was the celebrated George Heriot, described in the contract as
"George Hereot younger, goldsmyth ", for the space of one year
from ist December I6oi, for the sum of 453899 9: 6, of the
"usuall money foirsaid of this realme".
HERKOMER, SIR HUBERT (Brit.). R.A., M.A. Painter, born in
I846 at Waal, in Bavaria; emigrated with his family, in i85, to