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See also:SKINNER, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1778-1841) , See also:British military adventurer in See also:India, son of Lieut.-See also:Colonel See also:Hercules Skinner, was See also:born in India in 1778, his See also:mother being a See also:Rajput See also:lady. At the See also:age of eighteen he entered the Mahratta See also:army under de See also:Boigne, where he soon showed military talents; and he remained in the same service under See also:Perron until 1803, when, on the outbreak of the Mahratta See also:War, he refused to serve against his countrymen. He joined See also:Lord See also:Lake, and raised a See also:regiment of irregular See also:horse called " Skinner's Horse " or the " Yellow Boys," which became the most famous regiment of See also:light See also:cavalry in the India of that See also:day. He was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Bharatpur, and in 1818 was granted a jagir yielding Rs. 20,000 a See also:year, appointed See also:lieutenant-colonel in the British service and made C.B. He had an intimate knowledge of the See also:character of the natives of India, and his See also:advice was highly valued by successive See also:governor-generals and See also:corn--See also:SKIPPON
manders-in-See also:chief. He died at See also:Hansi on the 4th of See also:December 1841, and was buried in a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Delhi which is called after his name.
See J. See also:Baillie See also:Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut.-Colonel James Skinner (1851).
End of Article: SKINNER, JAMES (1778-1841)
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