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Descended from a London merchant who purchased Tooley in the seventeenth century, Skrymsher was related to the Walpoles through his wife.1Walpole to Mann, 22 Oct. 1741. Defeated for Leicester as a Whig in 1722, he was returned at a by-election in January 1727, but lost his seat at the general election of that year, petitioning unsuccessfully. In 1736 he was given a place under the commissioners of the customs, which he lost three years later. He died 6 June 1751.