William Skirving

(d. 1796)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Skirving, William, d. 1796 DNB: Skirving, William (d. 1796), political reformer LBT ID: WiSkirv1796 VIAF ID: 26624522 LOC ID: no90019614	DIED: 1796-03-16
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish radical educated at Edinburgh University; a founder of the Society of the Friends of the People, he was convicted of sedition in 1794 and transported to New South Wales.
REFERENCES TO William Skirving: C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 2: ¶ 63 ¶ 84