Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles (1893–1982) was an English officer of arms.[1]
Charles Wilfrid Giles was educated at Emanuel School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read history between 1919 and 1922.[1] Initially he worked on the parliamentary staff of the Press Association before being appointed as secretary of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers in 1928.[2]
In July 1928 he assumed the surname "Scott-Giles".[3]
He became a leading authority on heraldry, and wrote a number of books and articles on the subject. These included:
He also wrote the standard history of his alma mater, Sidney Sussex College, published in 1951.
He prepared The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from Correspondence With Dorothy L. Sayers (Gollancz, 1977). In another association with Sayers, Scott-Giles prepared the diagrams and maps illustrating Sayers' translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.[5]
Scott-Giles was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1957 became Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary.[6] In 1970 he was awarded the Julian Bickersteth Memorial Medal by the trustees and council of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.[7]
Scott-Giles was also credited, by John Brooke-Little, as being the initial creator of the concept and name of The White Lion Society.[8]