Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Skynner, (Sir) John
Skynner, (Sir) John, s. John, of London, gent. Christ Church, matric. 19 June, 1742, aged 18; B.C.L. 27 Jan., 1750-1, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1748, bencher 1771, King's counsel 1771, serj.-at-law 1777, recorder of Oxford 1771, a Welsh judge 1772, M.P. Woodstock 1771, until appointed lord chief baron of the Exchequer 27 Nov., 1777, resigned 1787, knighted 23 Nov., 1777, died 26 Nov., 1805. See Alumni West., 326.