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The Hon. Richard Skinner

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1826

Biography

Resident slave-owner of Barbados, member of the Council from 1820 until his retirement owing to ill health in 1826. An inventory of the Stepney estate and of Skinner was dated 18 January 1827. Presumably Skinner died in late 1826. The compensation for the enslaved people on two of his former estates was paid to his executor William Hinds in the 1830s.


Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories. [Richard Skinner, Stepney estate.]; CO 28/98/30 Description: Reports that Richard Skinner has resigned his seat on the Council Board on grounds of serious illness. Suggests that, in addition to the two names already submitted of Christopher Barrow and Dr James Maycock, Joseph William Jordan is suitably qualified to fill the vacancy. No. 15, folios 164-165 Date: 1826 Nov 2.

Associated Estates (4)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Lewis's [ Barbados | St Peter ]
1817 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
Mount Hellaby or Hillaby [ Barbados | St Thomas ]
- 1826 [LA] → Owner
Stepney [ Barbados | St George ]
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Executor
Stepney [ Barbados | St George ]

Relationships (1)

The Hon. Richard Skinner
Father → Daughter
Katherine Ann Hinds Cobham (née Skinner)
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