# Nicholas Skinner — Black Beauty character guide

> Nicholas Skinner in Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** old Colin, Skinner

**First appearance:** 0039-part-iii-xl-poor-ginger

## Who they are

A cruel London cab owner who works his horses to death.

## In the story

### [My Breaking In](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_beauty_se/chapters/part-i-iii-my-breaking-in)

Not directly present in this chapter.

### [Seedy Sam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_beauty_se/chapters/part-iii-xxxix-seedy-sam)

Mentioned as the master who never gives a day off and to whom Sam had to pledge his clock.

### [Hard Times](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_beauty_se/chapters/part-iv-xlvii-hard-times)

The cruel new master who works horses to death.

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