page_title: Thomas Skinner (etcher)
section_title: Burial
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Skinner (etcher) / Death / Burial
caption_attribution_description: The gravestone of the inventor and etcher Thomas Skinner, in the graveyard of All Saints parish church, Ecclesall, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The church was built in the 1780s, improved in 1843 and enlarged in 1864. A transept was added in 1907. The interior was reordered in 1964 and 1997. As of 2019 many of the 18th and 19th century gravestones remained, and the graveyard was still open for burials.
context_page_description: Thomas Skinner was an etcher, inventor and amateur oil-painter in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. During the 1840s he invented a method by which the mass production of etched designs on steel blades could be facilitated by means of paper transfers. The British and American patents brought him a good income, but he devoted his life to developing the method. After he was widowed he was killed by arsenic poisoning at the hands of his housekeeper Kate Dover.
context_section_description: Skinner was buried on Monday 12 December 1881 in a vault at "the centre of the upper portion of the churchyard" at All Saints Church, Ecclesall. The plot has a "handsome monolithic column" which bears the inscription, "In affectionate remembrance of Mellond, the beloved wife of Thomas Skinner who departed this life Nov 24th 1876 aged 56 years. Also the above Thomas Skinner who departed this life Dec 6th 1881 aged 62 years." Burial records are in Sheffield Archives. On the day of the funeral a "large crowd" assembled outside Skinner's house, to see the polished oak coffin with "Thomas Skinner, aged 65" (sic) engraved on it. Two coaches containing relatives of Skinner, and Jane Jones, followed the coffin to the church, and after them walked "fifty or sixty persons, mostly of the fairer sex". The service was taken by Reverend Sandford.  Most of the mourners "wept bitterly" as they proceeded from the funeral service to the burial place. "The clergyman uttered the closing words of the burial service in a downpour of hail and rain."
caption: Gravestone of Thomas Skinner, at Ecclesall
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