Robert T. Skinner Explained

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

Life

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 (1947)
• The Royal Mile: Edinburgh Castle to Holyroodhouse (1928)
• Yesterday and Today (1929)
• Figures and Figureheads (1931)

Notes and References

1. https://www.myheritage.com/names/robert_skinner Robert Skinner
2. Web site: North Bethelnie Farms.
3. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 2018-07-05. 2016-03-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. dead.
4. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910
5. Magazine for the Scottish Deaf, summer 1932
6. RSE Yearbook 1941
7. Web site: Robert Taylor Skinner grave monument details at Dean 2d Cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian,Scotland.