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data:
  actDates:
    - end: 1750
      lang: eng
      start: 1733
      text: fl. 1733-1750
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    - intro: lang
      lang: eng
      text: English
    - intro: irsp
      lang: fre
      text: Auteur
  bioDates:
    - end: 1617
      lang: eng
      start: 1543
      text: c.1543-1617
    - end: 1617
      lang: ger
      start: 1543
      text: 1543-1617
    - end: 1617
      lang: und
      start: 1543
      text: 1543?-1617
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        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
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      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
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      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Clustered authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: ABEU
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Provenance Information
      searchTerm: 1395
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    - code: PARB
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
      searchTerm: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12319364d
      typeOfResource: orig
  external:
    - auth: StAbUL
      country: GB
      date: 20140520
      id: 1047
    - auth: GND
      country: DE
      date: 20140814
      id: 1055332944
    - auth: GyGoGBV
      country: DE
      date: 20020831
      id: 141588535
    - auth: UkCyCl
      country: GB
      id: ME003173
    - auth: BNF
      catRules: AFNOR Z 44-061
      country: FR
      date: 19930629
      id: FRBNF123193641
    - auth: StAbUL
      country: GB
      date: 20140520
      id: 1395
  foundIn:
    - Prov. Reg. Notes (Bibliog. Aberd. I p.101)
    - LOC
    - DNB
    - Drummond 307
    - 'LCNA, 1993-03 : Skene, John, 1543-1617'
    - 'Regiam Majestatem and Quoniam Attachiamenta : based on the text of Sir John Skene / ed. and transl. with introd. and notes by Lord Cooper, 1947'
    - Marischal Fasti
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: "Could be Sir John Skene of Curriehill, Lord Chief Register, 6th son of James Skene of Wester Corse. Educated at possibly Aberdeen Grammar School 1549, then King's Coll., incorporated St Mary's Coll., St Andrews 1556. Regent, St Andrews, 1565. Spent 7 years in Europe, c.1567-74, studying law at Paris, visiting Switzerland, Poland and Scandanavia before settling at Wittenberg. Admitted advocate, Edinburgh 1575. Sent on a diplomatic mission to the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany 1590. Appointed lord advocate 1590. Lord clerk-registrar and lord of session, 1594. Commissioner of exchequer 1596. Part of the commission to review and print acts of parliament and other laws, published 1597. Knighted 1604. Commissioner for the proposed union with England 1604. Called to the English bar 1605. Edited and published for the first time the Regiam Majestatem, 1609. Died 1617. His library survived at Mar Lodge, Braemar until the 1920s, but has since been dispersed."
    - lang: fre
      text: Juriste
    - lang: eng
      text: 'M.A. Marischal College, 1733. Younger brother of Professor Francis Skene. Librarian of Marischal College Library 1737. Dismissed in 1750 as "guilty of very great negligence" Prof Skene, his cautioner, to pay the value of books lost.'
  geoNote:
    - intro: nati
      lang: eng
      text: United Kingdom
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    - part:
        - entry: Skene
        - firstname: John
      usedBy:
        - StAbUL
    - part:
        - entry: Skene
        - firstname: John
      usedBy:
        - GyFmDB
    - part:
        - entry: Skene
        - firstname: John
      usedBy:
        - BNF
        - GyGoGBV
    - part:
        - entry: Skene
        - firstname: John
      usedBy:
        - BNF
    - part:
        - entry: Skene
        - firstname: John
        - addition: Sir
      usedBy:
        - UkCyCl
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: Skene
        - firstname: Joannes
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Skeyne
        - firstname: John
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Skaeneus
        - firstname: Johannes
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Curriehill
        - firstname: John Skene
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Skin
        - firstname: John
      typeOfName: varn
  previousId:
    - cnp01883467
    - cnp01987009
    - cnp00980341
    - cnp01142038
    - cnp01883815
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  flag:
    - VIAF merged record
  history:
    - timestamp: 2012-02-29T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2015-12-14T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2016-12-13T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2012-03-01T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2013-03-10T10:57:59Z
    - timestamp: 2016-05-20T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-08-21T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-09-26T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2020-01-31T09:25:43Z
    - timestamp: 2020-05-27T12:00:00Z
  remark:
    - LC|n 85086219
  status: n