Henry Skrine

Henry Skrine (1755–1803) was an English traveller and author.

Life He was the son of Richard Dickson Skrine of Warleigh Manor, Bathford, Somerset, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Tryon of Collyweston, Northamptonshire. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, on 24 January 1774, and graduated B.C.L. in 1781. Becoming a member of Lincoln's Inn, he was called to the bar in 1782. He may not have had a practice as a barrister.

Skrine spent much of his time travelling through Great Britain, and recording his experiences. In 1793 he visited the north of Scotland, then little known. He died at Walton-on-Thames in 1803. He built the current Warleigh Manor, c.1815. John Harcourt, a cleric, married in 1815 Eleanor Baldwin. Isabella, Henrietta, and Catherine; with Letitia and Anne, who died young. Henrietta (died 1832) married the Rev. Edward Butler.