and captured Dungarvan. He died at Kilmainham, Dublin on 31 December 1535, and was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. There is a monument to him in the parish church at Skeffington. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas. Marriages Skeffington married firstly Margaret Digby, daughter of Sir Everard Digby (died 1509) of Tilton, Leicestershire, by whom he had a son and heir, Thomas Skeffington. He married secondly, Anne Digby, the daughter of Sir John Digby (died May 1533) of South Luffenham, Rutland, by Katherine (née Griffin), widow of John Bellers (died 27 January 1476), esquire, and daughter of Nicholas Griffin (died 6 June 1482), esquire, de jure Baron Latimer, by Katherine Curzon, by whom he had several children, including a son Leonard Skeffington "who served as a Lieutenant of the Tower of London, as a soldier in Ireland, and as a messenger who regularly represented his father at court". Leonard Skeffington is credited with having invented the "Scavenger's Daughter", a torture device used in the Tower during the reign of Henry VIII. Notes References Attribution: 1460s births 1535 deaths People from Harborough District High Sheriffs of Leicestershire High Sheriffs of Warwickshire English MPs 1529–1536 Members of the Parliament of England for Leicestershire Lords Lieutenant of Ireland 15th-century English people English knights Sheriffs of Warwickshire