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 Vaccancy", 1 side folio, Greenwich, 16th December

Skinner was employed for 22 years at Gibraltar, including its second siege (1727), and built Fort George on the Moray Firth, completed in 1759.

Item Date:  1769

Stock No:  20041      £45

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