Quentin Skinner

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940, Oldham, Lancashire) is an intellectual historian. Regarded as one of the founders of the 'Cambridge School' of the history of political thought, between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge; he is currently the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.

Quentin Skinner was born the second son of Alexander Skinner (died 1979), and Winifred Skinner, née Duthie (died 1982). He was educated at Bedford School and, like his elder brother, won an Entrance Scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double-starred First in History in 1962. Skinner was elected to a Fellowship of his College on his examination results, but moved later in 1962 to a teaching Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he remained until moving to the University of London in 2008. He is now an Honorary Fellow of both Christ's College and Gonville and Caius College.

Skinner was appointed to a lectureship in the Faculty of History at the Cambridge University in 1965. He spent a sabbatical year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1974-5, where he was invited to stay, and where he remained until 1979, when he returned to Cambridge as Professor of Political Science. He was appointed to the post of Regius Professor of History in 1996, and in 1999 as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University.

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