The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Skrine, Francis Henry
Skrine, Francis Henry, I.C.S.; s. of Clarmont Skrine, Captain of the 47th Regiment; b. 1847; educ: Blackheath School; passed the open competition and entered service in Bengal, 1868; on special duty in the Bihar and Madras famines, 1874-77; Superintendent Central Jail, Salem, 1877; thanked by Government for his system of constructing embankments in the Nadia District, 1876; on Famine duty, 1881; on special duty, for excavating a drainage canal at Rangpur, 1890; on Cholera duty, 1891; on special duty for construction of Water works at Arrah, 1894; Collector of Customs, Calcutta, 1895; Commissioner, Chittagong division, 1896; retired, 1897; toured in Central Asia, the Near East, Russia and Finland; Member of the Council of the Cremation Society of England. Publications: Laborious days, Calcutta, 1892; An Indian Journalist, 1895; The Heart of Asia (with Profes sor E. D. Ross, 1899; the life of Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I. (1901); the expansion of Russia, Cambridge Historical series, 1903; Fontinoy and Great Britain in the war of the Austrian Succession, 1906; Bahism, the religion of Brotherhood, 1913. Recreation: French Literature. Address; 147, Victoria Street, S.W. Clubs: Garrick, Authors’, Polyglot.