Rev Dr John Huntley SKRINE DD [32766]

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1. John Huntley Skrine: Obituary The Times, 9 May 1923.
SCHOOLMASTER AND POET.
DEATH OF DR. SKRINE.
The Rev. John Huntley Skrine, D.D., vicar of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, was found dead in the churchyard of his Parish. He was 75 years of age, and had been medically attended for heart trouble. Dr. Skrine was well known as schoolmaster, poet, and religious writer. Born on April 1, 1848, the son of H. D. Skrine, of Warleigh, Somerset, he was sent to Uppingham, then under its great headmaster, Edward Thring. In 1867 he went up to Oxford as a scholar of Corpus, took firsts in the classical schools, and won the Newdigate for a poem on Margaret of Anjou. He was immediately elected to a Fellowship of Merton, which he held till his marriage, in 1878, to Mary, daughter of the Rev, T. H. Tooke. In 1873 he went back as a master to Uppingham, which was still advancing yearly in prosperity under Thring. In 1888 Skrine was appointed Warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, where he remained for fourteen years, adapting with,success to different conditions the principles which had inspired Thring at Uppingham. To this period of his life belong various volumes of sermons preached in the school chapel, a collection of hymns for public school singing. and a number of ballads and lyrics. In the year of his leaving Glenalmond; he published " Pastor Agnorum," which has been of no small service to other schoolmasters, to whom it is primarily addressed. Skrine accepted in 1903 the vicarage of Itchen Stoke, which he held for four years. This bore fruit in a delightful book, "Pastor Ovium," the day-book of a country parson, in which he described with humour and occasional irony how much he himself learnt from his rustic flock. In 1908 he was nominated by Merton College to the small benefice of St. Peter-in-the-East, which restored him to Oxford. He had already been a Select Preacher, and in 1911 he was appointed, Hampton Lecturer, choosing as his subject "Creed and the Creeds." From 1908 to 1913 he was examining chaplain to Bishop Knox, of Manchester. In 1918 he published "The Survival of Jesus," which he described as "a priest's study in Divine telepathy." This was a brave attempt to state Christianity in the terms in which it presented itself to his own experience, disciplined by devotion and guided by modern science. It was in the light of psychical research and cognate studies that the author dealt with the main problems of the Christian faith. At one time he was a fairly frequent correspondent of The Times, usually on Church subjects, on which his standpoint as that of the Broad Church school. Dr. Skrine leaves one daughter, who is the wife of Dr. E. W. Ainley Walker, Lecturer in Pathology and Dean of the School of Medicine at Oxford.

John married Mary Jessie Hammond TOOKE [32767] [MRIN: 11708], daughter of Thomas Hammond TOOKE [32777] and Elizabeth WONTNER [32778], on 6 Aug 1878 in Farleigh WIL. (Mary Jessie Hammond TOOKE [32767] was born on 21 Jan 1856 in Slough BKM and died on 10 Mar 1923 in Oxford.)