This is the Reverend John Skinner. He was rector at Camerton where he wrote his memoirs. In the Napoleonic wars he tried to form a unit of sappers and miners among the men of Radstock but only had limited success. He also was an antiquarian being involved in the long barrow at Stoney Littleton. He shot himself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skinner_(archaeologist)
