Значение слова SKINNER в Литературной энциклопедии

JOHN (1721-1807).-Historian and song-writer, _s._ of a schoolmaster at Birse, Aberdeenshire, was _ed._ at Marischal Coll. Brought up as a Presbyterian, he became an Episcopalian and ministered to a congregation at Longside, near Peterhead, for 65 years. He wrote _The Ecclesiastical History of Scotland_ from the Episcopalian point of view, and several songs of which _The Reel of Tullochgorum_ and _The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn_ are the best known, and he also rendered some of the Psalms into Latin. He kept up a rhyming correspondence with Burns.