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SKRINE, John Huntley was born on April 3, 1848 in Somerset. 3rd son of Henry Duncan Skrine, Warleigh, Somerset, and Susanna C. Mills, daughter of Thomas Mills, Saxham House, Suffolk.
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SKRINE, John Huntley was born on April 3, 1848 in Somerset. 3rd son of Henry Duncan Skrine, Warleigh, Somerset, and Susanna C. Mills, daughter of Thomas Mills, Saxham House, Suffolk.
Uppingham; Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Scholar, Master of Arts) 1st class (Classics) in Mods, and in Final Schools. Newdigate Prize Poem, 1870. Master of Arts.
Fellow of Merton College Oxford, 1871 - 79. Ordained, 1874; assistant master, Uppingham, 1873-1887. Canon of Perth Cathedral, 1897-1902.
Warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, 1888-1902. Select preacher to University of Oxford, 1907. Bampton Lecturer for 1911. Vicar of St. Peter in the East, Oxford, since 190S.
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