Men-at-the-Bar/Skene, William Baillie

by Joseph Foster

Skene, William Baillie, M.A., Corpus Christi Coll., Oxon, 1862, fellow All Souls' Coll., Oxon, 1864, J.P., D.L. co. Fife, J.P. co. Kinross, standing counsel to Conservative Registration Association 1876-80, a student of Lincoln's Inn 5 Nov., 1860 (then aged 22), called to the bar 6 June, 1863 (2nd son of Patrick George Skene, Esq., of Pitlour, co. Fife); born 24 April, 1838; married 7 Feb., 1874, Lorina Charlotte, eldest dau. of Very Rev. Henry George Liddell, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and has issue (see Foster's Peerage, E. Ravensworth).

Pitlour House, Strathmiglo, N.B.; 9, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.; Arthur's, Athenæum, and United University Clubs.