Hilary Skinner
John Edwin Hilary Skinner (1839–1894) was an English barrister and journalist, known as a war correspondent. Life The elder son of Allen Maclean Skinner, Q.C., and a descendant of Matthew Skinner, was born in London in January 1839, and educated at University College London, London University, where he graduated LL.D. in 1861. In the same year he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and went the northern circuit. A good linguist, he obtained a commission from the ''The Daily News (UK), Daily News'' as special correspondent with the Danish Army in the Second Schleswig War. He was present during the campaign down to the Battle of Als at the end of June, when Christian IX of Denmark presented him with the Dannebrog order. He visited America, and then reported the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. In 1867 Skinner ran the blockade into Crete, then part of the Ottoman Empire. During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, he was attached to the staff of the Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Crown ...
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