Thomas Edward Burnes SKINNER 1
- Born: Abt 1842, Ceylon
- Marriage (1): Sophia SCONCE on 16 May 1865 in Colombo, Ceylon
- Died: Sep 1902, Guildford, Surrey, England aged about 60 2
- Buried: Shalford, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England
General Notes:
Was in the Civil service in Ceylon, 1860-1896 retiring as Postmaster General.
List of Inscriptions on tombstones & monuments in Ceylon: pp. 124-5: Christ Church, Galle Face, Colombo
No. 404, 1866 Georgina Skinner
"".... Lt-Col. Burrell was in command of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in Ceylon in the thirties. His daughter married Capt. T. Skinner, Ceylon Rifles, then acting as Surveyor-General, at Colombo on Dec. 19, 1838.
Their son, Thomas Skinner, was in the Ceylon Civil Service, 1860-1896, retiring as Postmaster General.""
Toussaint, J.R.: Annals of the Ceylon Civil Service:
Toussaint says of T.E.B. Skinner that he was b. ca 1841, joined the fiscal department in Kandy in 1896 and was described as "most energetic". Postmaster General for 24 years; retired in 1896 age 55. d. 1902 after some years of illness.
Census England 1901: Age 59; Visitor in a hotel in Cornwall, St Minver Lowlands; Civil Service Retired. With possible wife Sophia, age 55, born Malta abt. 1846.
Thomas married Sophia SCONCE, daughter of Robert Clement SCONCE and Catharine HENDERSON, on 16 May 1865 in Colombo, Ceylon. (Sophia SCONCE was born on 12 Feb 1842 in Malta, died on 18 Nov 1930 in Farm End, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England and was buried in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England.)
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