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thesaurus/cnp01337917 Skene, John

Skene, John

Record IDcnp01337917
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01337917
Biographical Data1543 - 1617
Last Edit2020-05-27

General Note

Could be Sir John Skene of Curriehill, Lord Chief Register, 6th son of James Skene of Wester Corse. Educated at possibly Aberdeen Grammar School 1549, then King's Coll., incorporated St Mary's Coll., St Andrews 1556. Regent, St Andrews, 1565. Spent 7 years in Europe, c.1567-74, studying law at Paris, visiting Switzerland, Poland and Scandanavia before settling at Wittenberg. Admitted advocate, Edinburgh 1575. Sent on a diplomatic mission to the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany 1590. Appointed lord advocate 1590. Lord clerk-registrar and lord of session, 1594. Commissioner of exchequer 1596. Part of the commission to review and print acts of parliament and other laws, published 1597. Knighted 1604. Commissioner for the proposed union with England 1604. Called to the English bar 1605. Edited and published for the first time the Regiam Majestatem, 1609. Died 1617. His library survived at Mar Lodge, Braemar until the 1920s, but has since been dispersed.
Juriste
M.A. Marischal College, 1733. Younger brother of Professor Francis Skene. Librarian of Marischal College Library 1737. Dismissed in 1750 as "guilty of very great negligence" Prof Skene, his cautioner, to pay the value of books lost.

More Information

Further Biographical Datac.1543-1617
1543-1617
1543?-1617
Dates of Activityfl. 1733-1750
Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur
Primary Language(s)English
NationalityUnited Kingdom

Names

HeadingSkene, John
used in: The University of Aberdeen Library
Skene, John
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Skene, John
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Common Library Network (GBV), Göttingen (Germany)
Skene, John
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Skene, John, Sir
used in: Canterbury Cathedral Library, (United Kingdom)
Variant NameSkene, Joannes
Skeyne, John
Skaeneus, Johannes
Curriehill, John Skene
Skin, John

Sources

Found inProv. Reg. Notes (Bibliog. Aberd. I p.101). — LOC. — DNB. — Drummond 307. — LCNA, 1993-03 : Skene, John, 1543-1617. — Regiam Majestatem and Quoniam Attachiamenta : based on the text of Sir John Skene / ed. and transl. with introd. and notes by Lord Cooper, 1947. — Marischal Fasti

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