SKENE, WILLIAM FORBES

SKENE, WILLIAM FORBES
   Scottish historian, born in Kincardineshire, bred to law; devoted 40 years of his life to the study of the early, in particular the Celtic, periods of Scottish history, and was from 1881 historiographer for Scotland (1809-1892).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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