Anad is a village in Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India.

As of 2001^[update] India census, Anad had a population of 30491 with 14782 males and 15709 females.

Robert Skinner (1591–1670) was an English bishop.

He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford in 1613, and graduated M.A. in 1614.

His father Edmund Skinner was rector of Pitsford, and Robert succeeded him in 1628. He was vicar of Launton from 1632.

In 1634, Oxford University granted him a D.D. at the request of William Laud, without the formalities, a move criticized by John Prideaux. In the 1630s Skinner was known for his sermons before Charles I asserting Arminian doctrines. He became bishop of Bristol in 1636. There he was active in preaching against Calvinism.

In 1641, he was translated to become Bishop of Oxford, but was imprisoned shortly afterwards with the fall of Archbishop Laud, in the round-up of Laudian bishops who were taken to the Tower of London. Released on bail he resided at Launton, and under the Commonwealth he continued to ordain priests there, using Ralph Bathurst as a deputy.

In 1663 he was made bishop of Worcester.

Colin Eric Allen (born 9 May 1938, Bournemouth, Hampshire (now in Dorset), England) is an English blues drummer and songwriter.

Allen took up drums at the age of 18, playing initially with local jazz musician in Dorset. During 1961 Allen became a member of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, which also included Andy Summers (later of The Police) and still appears occasionally, with the 'Big Roll Band'. Allen moved to London on 1 January 1964 with Andy Summers. He has played drums for many US and UK musicians including Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim, Solomon Burke, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Marc Bolan and T.Rex, Mick Taylor, Focus, Donovan, Stone The Crows, Georgie Fame, Brian Joseph Friel, and since 2006 The British Blues Quintet, with keyboardist Zoot Money, bassist Colin Hodgkinson and vocalist Maggie Bell. Colin Allen is married and lives in Stockholm, Sweden since 1985.

Allen has also written and co-written songs which have been recorded by artists including Paul McCartney’s Wings (with music by Jimmy McCulloch), Fleetwood Mac, Mick Taylor and Mick Ronson. When co-writing he has mostly worked as a lyricist, as in Talyor's Alabama, from his solo debut Mick Taylor (1979).