English traveller, orientalist and official in British India
Francis Henry Bennett Skrine (1847–1933) was an English traveller, orientalist and official inBritish India .
He was the son of the Rev. Clarmont Skrine of Warleigh Lodge,Wimbledon , previously an army officer, and his wife Mary Anne Auchmuty Bennett, daughter of Major Charles Butson Bennett.[ 1] Blackheath School and entered theIndian Civil Service in 1868.[ 2]
In 1870 Skrine was appointed assistant magistrate and collector inNadia district .[ 3] famine relief inBihar during 1874, and inMadras in 1877–8. He was officiating commissioner ofBhagalpur in 1893–4.[ 4] Calcutta in 1895, and commissioner ofChittagong division , retiring in 1897.[ 2]
Subsequently Skrine travelled inCentral Asia .[ 5]
Memorandum on the Material Condition of the Lower Orders in Bengal During the Ten Years from 1881–82 to 1891–92 (1892), an investigation covering the condition of agricultural workers.[ 6] Shahabad district .[ 7] Laborious Days: Leaves from the Indian Record of Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1892)[ 8] An Indian Journalist: being the life, letters and correspondence of Dr. Sambhu C. Mookerjee, late editor of "Reis and rayyet" Calcutta (1895)[ 2] The Life of Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I (1901),[ 2] William Wilson Hunter , an authorised biography.[ 9] [ 10] The Heart of Asia: a History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates (1899) withDenison Ross [ 11] Annette Meakin questioned some of the reporting of this book on Central Asian women.[ 12] The Expansion of Russia, 1815–1900 (1904)[ 13] Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1741–48 (1906)[ 14] Bahaism, the religion of brotherhood and its place in the evolution of creeds (1912)[ 15] Gossip about Dr Johnson and Others being Characters from the Memoirs of Miss Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1926),[ 16] Laetitia Matilda Hawkins .[ 17] Skrine married Helen Lucy Stewart, and was the father ofClarmont Percival Skrine .[ 18]
^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1905).Armorial Families ^a b c d Dictionary of Indian Biography ^ Major General H. G. Hart (1876).The New Army List, Militia List and Indian Civil Service List ^ Great Britain. India Office (1819).The India List and India Office List for ... ^ s:The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Skrine, Francis Henry ^ Bindeshwar Ram (1 January 1997).Land and Society in India: Agrarian Relations in Colonial North Bihar ISBN 978-81-250-0643-5 ^ Peter Gottschalk (2013).Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India ISBN 978-0-19-539301-9 ^ Francis Henry Skrine (1892).Laborious Days: Leaves from the Indian Record of Sir Charles Alfred Elliott ^ Lee, Sidney , ed. (1901)."Hunter, William Wilson" Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement)^ "Review ofLife of Sir W. W. Hunter by F. H. Skrine" .Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art .93 (2418):266– 267. 1 March 1902.^ Ghani (5 September 2013).Iran & The West ISBN 978-1-136-14458-5 ^ Nile Green (2 January 2014).Writing Travel in Central Asian History ISBN 978-0-253-01148-0 ^ Francis Henry Skrine (1904).The Expansion of Russia, 1815–1900 ^ Ira D. Gruber (25 October 2010).Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution ISBN 978-0-8078-9940-3 ^ Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1 310 .^ Ian Bartlett; Robert J. Bruce (18 January 2011).William Boyce: A Tercentenary Sourcebook and Compendium ISBN 978-1-4438-2807-9 ^ Pat Rogers (1996).The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia ISBN 978-0-313-29411-2 ^ John F. Riddick (1 January 1998).Who was who in British India . Greenwood Press. p. 333.ISBN 978-0-313-29232-3
International National Academics People Other
