Skinner, Robert, of Northants, clr fil, TRINITY COLL., matric 11 July 1606 aged 15, B.A. 14 June 1610, fellow 1613, M.A. 25 June 1614 (In corporated at Cambridge 1615), B.D. 19 April 1621 (re-incorporated at Cambridge 1621), licenced to preach 14 Jan., 1621-2, created D.D. 13 Aug 1636 (s. Edmund of Pisford, Northants, cler.) preacher of St Gregory's, near St. Pauls, London, 1621-30 chaplain in ordinary to Charles I., rector 0f Pisford 1628-35, rector of Launton, Oxon, 1631, and of Greens Norton, Northants, 1636, until sequestered 1643, sequestered also from the vicarage of Cuddesden 1646, and from the rectory of Beckenham 1647; bishop of Bristol 1637-41, and of Oxford 1641, imprisoned in the Tower 1641, restored 1660, bishop of Worcester 1663, until his death 14 June 1670; father of Mathew 1639. See Ath. iv. 842; Fasti, i. 489; Lansdowne MS. 986, ff 135,137: & Foster's Index Eccl.
