Quentin Skinner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Quentin Skinner

British historian

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1940

Place of Birth: Oldham, England, United Kingdom

Profession: historian, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 1940) is a British 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.