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SKINNER, JAMES (1778-1841)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 192 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SKINNER, JAMES (1778-1841) , British military adventurer in India, son of Lieut.-Colonel Hercules Skinner, was born in India in 1778, his
mother
  being a Rajput lady. At the age of eighteen he entered the Mahratta army under de
Boigne
 , where he soon showed military talents; and he remained in the same service under Perron until 1803, when, on the outbreak of the Mahratta War, he refused to serve against his countrymen. He joined Lord Lake, and raised a
regiment
  of irregular
horse
  called " Skinner's
Horse
  " or the " Yellow Boys," which became the most famous
regiment
  of light cavalry in the India of that day. He was present at the siege of Bharatpur, and in 1818 was granted a jagir yielding Rs. 20,000 a year, appointed
lieutenant
 -colonel in the British service and made C.B. He had an intimate knowledge of the character of the natives of India, and his advice was highly valued by successive
governor
 -generals and corn--SKIPPON
manders-in-
chief
 . He died at Hansi on the 4th of December 1841, and was buried in a
church
  at Delhi which is called after his name.
See J. Baillie Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut.-Colonel James Skinner (1851).


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