Francis Henry Skrine

Francis Henry Bennett Skrine (1847–1933) was an English traveller, orientalist and official in British India.

Life

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. He was educated at Blackheath School and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1868.

In 1870 Skrine was appointed assistant magistrate and collector in Nadia district. He worked on famine relief in Bihar during 1874, and in Madras in 1877–8. He was officiating commissioner of Bhagalpur in 1893–4. He became collector of customs at Calcutta in 1895, and commissioner of Chittagong Division, retiring in 1897.

Subsequently Skrine travelled in Central Asia.

Family

Skrine married Helen Lucy Stewart, and was the father of Clarmont Percival Skrine.