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SKINNER
(William, 1700-1780, from 1757 Chief Engineer of Great Britain, Lieutenant General)
LS to Thomas Thoroton, 1723-1784, M.P.,
Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, begging him, following the Death of the Two Gentlemen last sent to Senegal, to mention my Grandson to the Master General [Granby] to suceed as a practitioner Engineer, hoping that his own above fifty Year's Service and some year's Chief of the Corp's may have some little merit towards his claim, the candidate's father Died a Capt. on the Expedition to the West India Islands, and recalling that his Lordship gave me some hopes on the last Vacancy, 1 side folio, Greenwich, 16th December
Item Date: 1769
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Skinner was employed for 22 years at Gibraltar, including its second siege (1727), and built Fort George on the Moray Firth, completed in 1759.
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