William Forbes Skene WS FRSE FSA(Scot) DCL LLD (7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892), was a Scottish lawyer, historian and antiquary.
He co-founded the Scottish legal firm Skene Edwards which was prominent throughout the 20th century but disappeared in 2008 when it merged with Morton Fraser.[1]
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WilliamForbesSkene WS FRSE FSA(Scot) DCL LLD (7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892), was a Scottish lawyer, historian and antiquary. He co-founded the Scottish...
Picts and Caledonians were red haired (rutilantia). Scholars such as WilliamForbesSkene noted that this description matches Tacitus' description of the Caledonians...
The Four Ancient Books of Wales is a term coined by WilliamForbesSkene to describe four important medieval manuscripts written in Middle Welsh and dating...
William ForbesSkene the charter exists in the Forbes charter chest in tattered but quite legible condition. The next mention is a John Forbes, whose name...
was said to cure sore eyes. According to historian and antiquary WilliamForbesSkene, the village of St Fillans, on the eastern end of Loch Earn, takes...
come from Carmarthen Priory. Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin was described by WilliamForbesSkene (1809–92) as one of the Four Ancient Books of Wales. Written before...
James Skene of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen. His brothers included the writer WilliamForbesSkene and his sisters the writer Felicia Mary Frances Skene. He...
of British and that Gaelic was a later introduction from Ireland. WilliamForbesSkene argued in 1837 that Pictish was a Goidelic language, the ancestor...
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the Germanicist model was destroyed in the nineteenth century when WilliamForbesSkene and others brought medieval Scotland into the frame of serious, recognisably...
appear as Bernicia, rather than Ireland (Hibernia), in some versions. WilliamForbesSkene saw a connection between this and the account in the Historia de...
Donnachaidh, 1275 – 1749 and Highlanders at Bannockburn. Quoting: WilliamForbesSkene, vol. 11. pp. 140. Printed by Wood and Son, Mill Street, Perth. Moncreiffe...
John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. WilliamForbesSkene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...
Entries in the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, collected by WilliamForbesSkene, provide the account of Finnela killing Kenneth II in revenge, but...
John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. WilliamForbesSkene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...
p. 231. A. O. Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 232–3 Felix J. H. Skene & WilliamForbesSkene (ed.), John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, (Edinburgh...
him buried at Dunfermline Abbey, the other at the isle of Iona. WilliamForbesSkene viewed the conflict between Donald III and Duncan II as being essentially...
ancient dignity, the holder of which was called abthanus or abthane. WilliamForbesSkene holds that the correct meaning of abthain (or abthane) is not "abbot"...
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