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Skrine ; the Rev. J. Huntley Skrine, Warden of Trinity College, 
Glenalmond, Perth ; Mr. Edward Harcourt Skrine (for many years 
a Ceylon tea planter); Mr. Sholto Douglas Skrine and the Rev. 
Vivian Eccles Skrine vicar of Leadenham, co. Lincoln (twins) : Mr. 
Osmond Percie Skrine and Mr. Walter Claremont Skrine. There 
were three daughters—one married to Mr. G. A. R. Fitzgerald, 
barrister, and another to Mr. Douglas C. Richmond, barrister and 
Charity Commissioner ; the third is Miss Mary Catherine Skrine. 
Mrs. Skrine died in 1890. 
Mr. Skrine was for a very long period a county magistrate, and 
in his more active days, before the County Council deprived the 
Quarter Sessions of their control of county affairs, he did not confine 
himself merely to serving on the Bench at Weston (he was chairman 
for many years, retiring in 1879), but was prominent at the quarterly 
meetings of the justices at Wells and Taunton. When the County 
Councils were established in 1889 it was no surprise to find him 
willing to be the representative of the Weston division, and he was 
elected without a contest. At successive triennial elections he was 
never opposed, and it will not be easy to find anyone willing to take 
his place, for the office requires the expenditure of much time and 
no little expense. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county and 
had served the office of Sheriff. 
It is a difficult task to atterapt a recital of the many associations 
Mr. Skrine had with the social, charitable and educational life of 
the neighbourhood. Nearest his heart, perhaps, was the Selborne 
Society, of which he was the founder in 1886 and then the 
President, for a love of animal life and desire for their protection 
was one of his ruling passions. A presentation was made to him 
in November, 1897, by the Members of the Society. To the 
Bath Literary and Philosophical Society he read many papers, 
and of the Institution he was in his time the moving spirit. His 
ancestors were among the founders of the Blue Coat Schoo], and 
to this institution Mr. Skrine was extremely generous; he had 
been a Trustee since 1858. Of the Mineral Water Hospital he 
