Colonial Despatches

James Skinner was an Anglican minister. Born in Scotland on 23 June 1818, Skinner began attending Durham University when he was fifteen years old.1 He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1837, along with George Hills, who would go on to become the first Bishop of British Columbia.2 Skinner died on 29 December 1881, following a life one biographer described as a victory mainly through suffering.3

• 1. Maria Trench, James Skinner: A Memoir (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), 5, 11. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044081246985
• 2. Sylvanus Urban, ed., The Gentleman's Magazine [vol. 8 (new series), July - December 1837] (London: William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols & Son, 1837), 177. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027525883
• 3. Deaths, Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), 2 January 1882, 6; Trench, James Skinner, x.