Skelton, John Sir ♂

Education

Rector’s Assessor 1869, 1881-1884.

Birth/childhood

Born 18.7.1831 son of James Skelton, W.S. [Writer to the Signet], Sheriff substitute, Aberdeen and Margaret Marjorie Kinnear. [Lawyer]

Career

Studied at Edinburgh University - LL.D. 1878.

Became Advocate in 1854, but more interested in literature - used pseudonym ‘Shirley’. [Lawyer]

Secretary, Board of Supervision 1868-1897 (retired).

Rector’s Assessor 1869, 1881-1884. [St Andrews University]

K.C.B. [Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath] 1897.

Publications

Death

Died 19.7.1897.

Sources

• F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145).
• Deaths Reg. St George, Edinburgh 1897/937
• William Knight, Some Nineteenth century Scotsmen 384 - 399