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SIR WILLIAM SKEFFINGTON (c. 1465-1535)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:SKEFFINGTON (c. 1465-1535)  , See also:lord See also:deputy of See also:Ireland, belonged to a See also:Leicestershire See also:family and was See also:sheriff of Leicestershire and See also:Warwickshire under See also:Henry VII . He was See also:master of the See also:ordnance and a member of See also:parliament during the reign of Henry VIII., and in 1529 was appointed deputy in Ireland for Henry's son, the See also:duke of See also:Richmond, the nominal lord See also:lieutenant of that See also:country . He crossed over in See also:August 1529, but his See also:power was so circumscribed by instructions from Henry that the See also:head of the Fitzgeralds, Gerald, 9th See also:earl of See also:Kildare, and not See also:Skeffington, was the real See also:governor of Ireland . This See also:state of affairs lasted for three years and then in 1532 the deputy was recalled . In 1534, Kildare being in See also:prison in See also:England and his son See also:Thomas, afterwards the loth earl, being in revolt, Skeffington was again appointed deputy . After some delay he landed at See also:Dublin in See also:October 1534 and marched at once to relieve See also:Drogheda, but further progress in the See also:work of crushing the See also:rebellion was seriously delayed by his illness . However, in the See also:spring of 1535 he was again in the See also:field . He took See also:Maynooth, the heavy See also:artillery used by him on this occasion earning for him his surname of " the See also:gunner "; he forced some of Kildare's See also:allies to make See also:peace and he captured See also:Dungarvan . He died on the 31st of See also:December 1535 .

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