John Skinner (16 July 1850 – 17 February 1926) was an English

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er. Skinner was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm roundarm

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. The son of Richard Skinner, a master tailor, he was born at Steyning,

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. Skinner made his first-class debut for

against Kent in 1873. Over the next decade he played infrequently for Sussex, making nine further first-class appearances, the last of which came against Hampshire in 1882. In his ten first-class matches, he scored 41 runs at an average of 2.56, with a high score of 10. With the ball, he took 16 wickets at a

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of 29.93, with best figures of 4/95. Outside of cricket he worked as a tailor, but also coached cricket at

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. At the time of the 1881 census, he was living at the Tailor's Shop in Steyning, with his father Richard, then aged 60 and his mother Jane, then aged 64. His unmarried brothers Ernest and Harry, as well as his unmarried sister Fanny were also living there. He died at the town of his birth on 17 February 1926.

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