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