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Ralph Skinner
The
Very Rev
Ralph
Skinner
was a
sixteenth century
Politician
and
Clergyman
.
Skinner was
educated
at
Winchester
and
New College, Oxford
. Successively he
sat
as an
MP for Leicester
,
Penryn
,
Bossiney
and
Westbury
. As well as his representative
duties
he was
Lay rector
of
Broughton Astley
from
1550
to 1553;
Pro-warden
of
New College
,
Oxford
, from
1551
to 1553;
Warden
of
Sherburn Hospital
from
1559
;
Commissioner
to enforce
Acts of Uniformity
and
Supremacy
for the
Province of York
from 1560;
Chancellor
,
Receiver General
and
Dean
of the
Palatinate of Durham
from 1561; and
Rector
of
Sedgefield
from
1562
.
