James Skinner (East India Company officer)
James Skinner CB (1778 – December 4, 1841) was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer in India.
Skinner was born in India, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hercules Skinner and a Jat lady. Because of his Indian heritage, Skinner was unable to serve as an officer in the East India Company army[1] and, at the age of eighteen, he entered the Mahratta army under Benoît de Boigne, where he soon showed military talent. He remained in the same service under Pierre Cuillier-Perron until 1803, when, on the outbreak of the second Anglo-Maratha War all Anglo-Indians were dismissed from Mahratta service.[1]
James Skinner (East India Company Officer) Media
Skinner's Horse party. Folio from "Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi", an album by Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 1843.
St. James' Church or Skinner's Church, Kashmiri Gate, Delhi
Marble slab of Skinner's tomb in St James' church, Delhi
Old Delhi in 1858. "Skinner's House" is marked as #27, on the edge of the city below the Jammi Masjid
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dalrymple, William (1993). City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi. HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 000215725X.