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SKINNER, DANIEL, son of Daniel Skinner, Mark Lane, London, merchant, and Frances, dau. of Robert Corbet, Edgmond, Shropshire; b.; adm.; KS 1666; in a letter written by him to Samuel Pepys in 1676 he states that he was at the School for seven years; described by his contemporary William Taswell (qv) as “proud and empty and void of learning”; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1670, adm. pens. 1 Jul 1670, scholar 1671, matr. 1670; BA 1673/4; MA 1677; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1674, Major Fellow 23 May 1679 – c. 1685; acted as amanuensis to the poet John Milton 1673-4; was bequeathed by Milton the manuscripts of his Latin State Letters and The Treatise on Christian Doctrine; attempted to get Daniel Elzevier to print them in Amsterdam, but eventually handed them over to Sir Joseph Williamson (qv), then Secretary of State; the packet containing them was discovered in the State Paper Office at Whitehall in 1823 (Papers relating to Milton, Camden Soc. Pub., 1st series, lxxv); visited Barbados in 1680 and Nevis in 1681; in a letter written from Paris, dated 4 Feb 1682, Skinner congratulates Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston (qv), on his appointment as Ambassador to France, and mentions “the recollection I have of beginning my studies with Your Excellency at the famous school of Westminster” (HMC, Graham MSS, vii, 380); his sister Mary appears to have become Samuel Pepys’s mistress; living 1684/5. [will of Daniel Skinner, London, merchant, proved PCC 9 Feb 1685 (his father ?); will of Daniel Skinner, St. Paul, Covent Garden, gentleman, proved PCC 11 Oct 1697]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.