Robert T. Skinner

Robert Taylor Skinner FRSE FSA(Scot) (1867–1946) was a 20th-century Scottish mathematician, historical author and antiquarian.

Life
Donaldson's School

He was born at Bethelnie Farm near Aberdeen on 22 May 1867, one of 17 children of James Skinner (b.1824), a farmer, and his wife, Jane Anderson (b.1831).[1] He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School.[2]

In 1893 he began teaching Mathematics at George Watson's College. He moved to Donaldson's School for the Deaf in 1899.

In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert McNair Ferguson, John Sturgeon Mackay, David Fowler Lowe, and John Brown Clark.[3]

He was House Governor of Donaldson's Hospital and lived in his rooms there.[4] He retired in 1932.[5]

On retiral he lived at 35 Campbell Road in the Murrayfield district.[6]

He died on 31 August 1946 and was buried in Dean Cemetery.[7]

Publications
  • Men of the North-East (1920)
  • In the Cevennes Without a Donkey (1926)
  • A Notable Family of Scots Printers (1927) the story of the Donaldson family
  • The Schoolmaster Looks Back
  • The Royal Mile: Edinburgh Castle to Holyroodhouse (1928)
  • Yesterday and Today (1929)
  • Figures and Figureheads (1931)

References
  1. https://www.myheritage.com/names/robert_skinner
  2. https://oldmeldrum.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/north-bethelnie-farms-25373762.html
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  4. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910
  5. Magazine for the Scottish Deaf, summer 1932
  6. RSE Yearbook 1941
  7. https://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?grave=73294&scrwidth=2400


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