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, Scotland. In 1885 he was articled to John Rust. He left to join a London based architectural practice in 1890, serving as an assistant to Morton M. Glover from 1891 to 1892. In 1893 he passed his architectural qualifying exam and was admitted to the

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on 4 December. Skinner emigrated to Ceylon before the end of 1893 working as an assistant to an engineering firm before commencing his own architectural practice in 1897. He was responsible for designing a number of buildings in

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, including the south wing of the

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(1894),

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(1901), Cargills & Co. (1902), Victoria Memorial Eye Hospital (1903), Lindsay Lecture Hall, St. Andrew's Church (1906), Wesley College (1907) and

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(1908). On 7 June 1909 he was admitted as a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Skinner committed suicide at his offices in

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on 26 December 1910.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Skinner, Edward 1869 births 1910 deaths Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects British expatriates in British Ceylon Architects from Aberdeen 19th-century Scottish architects Sri Lankan people of Scottish descent 20th-century Sri Lankan architects 1910 suicides Deaths in the British Empire