Ralph Skinner
The Very Rev Ralph Skinner was a sixteenth century Politician and Clergyman.[1]
Skinner was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Successively he sat as an MP for Leicester, Penryn, Bossiney and Westbury.[2] As well as his representative duties he was Lay rector of Broughton Astley from 1550 to 1553; Pro-warden of New College, Oxford, from 1551 to 1553; Warden of Sherburn Hospital from 1559; Commissioner to enforce Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy for the Province of York from 1560; Chancellor, Receiver General and Dean of the Palatinate of Durham from 1561;[3] and Rector of Sedgefield (where he was buried) from 1562.
References
- ^ "Annals of the Reformation" Strype,J: London, John Wyat, 1709
- ^ History of Parliament on line
- ^ British history on-line
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