John Skerrett, 7th Mayor of Galway

Mayor of Galway

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, 1491-1492. Skerrett was a member of one of The Tribes of Galway, descended from a Richard Huskard

Richard Huskard

Richard Huskard was an Anglo-Irish settler. He was an ancestor of the family of Skerrett, who later became one of The Tribes of Galway. Later bearers of the name included John Skerrett and John Skerrett...

 who was a tenent of the Earl of Ulster

Earl of Ulster

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 in 1333. A Richard Scared served as Provost

Provost (civil)

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 of Galway in 1378, as did a Walter Skerrett for the terms 1414-1415 and 1417-1418. Four further members of the family would become Mayors of Galway: James Skerrett 1531-1532; William Skerrett 1556-1557; Roland Skerrett 1594-1595; John Skerrett fitz William 1605-1606. Other members of the family served as bailiffs, on the town council and would fight in the Irish Confederate Wars

Irish Confederate Wars

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. John Skerrett (Augustinian)

John Skerrett (Augustinian)

John Skerrett , Irish Preacher and Missionary, c.1620-c.1688.John Skerrett was a member of one of The Tribes of Galway. He studied for the clergy in Andalusia, been afterwards ordained as a member of the Augustinian order...

 (c.1620-c.1688) was well known in his lifetime as a preacher

Preacher

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, lecturer

Lecturer

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 and missionary

Missionary

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Mayor John Skerrett was elected Provost of Galway in 1480. A copy of his mayoralty seal survives, and was illustrated in volume one of Blake Family Records by Martin J. Blake

Martin J. Blake

Martin J. Blake, Irish historian, died c.1930.Blake was a descendant of one of The Tribes of Galway, and some of his most nothworthy work was the publication, in two volumes, of much of the extant documents of the Blake family of Galway from 1315 to the 18th century...

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