AKA Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner

Born: 26-Nov-1940
Birthplace: Oldham, Lancashire, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Father: Alexander Skinner (d. 1979)
Mother: Winifred Rose Margaret Duthie (d. 1982)

    High School: Bedford School
    University: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University
    Fellow: Christ's College, Cambridge University
    Professor: Queen Mary University of London (2008-)

    Academia Europaea
    Accademia dei Lincei
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    American Philosophical Society
    British Academy
    Cambridge Apostles
    Royal Historical Society
 
    Wolfson History Prize 1979

Author of books:
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978, politics)
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (1996, philosophy)
Liberty Before Liberalism (1998, politics)
Visions of Politics (2002, politics)
Hobbes and Republican Liberty (2008, politics)
Forensic Shakespeare (2014, criticism)

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