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Quentin Skinner was born the second son of Alexander Skinner, CBE (died 1979), and Winifred Rose Margaret, née Duthie (died 1982). Educated at Bedford School and [http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/ Gonville and Caius College] Cambridge, he was elected into a Research Fellowship there in 1962 upon obtaining a British undergraduate degree in [[History]], and immediately gained a teaching Fellowship at [http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/ Christ's College,] Cambridge, where he has been ever since. He is now also an Honorary Fellow of Caius.  

Quentin Skinner was born the second son of Alexander Skinner, CBE (died 1979), and Winifred Rose Margaret, née Duthie (died 1982). Educated at Bedford School and [http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/ Gonville and Caius College] Cambridge, he was elected into a Research Fellowship there in 1962 upon obtaining a British undergraduate degree in [[History]], and immediately gained a teaching Fellowship at [http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/ Christ's College,] Cambridge, where he has been ever since. He is now also an Honorary Fellow of Caius.  

In the middle 1970s he spent four formative years at the [http://www.ias.edu/ Institute for Advanced Study] at Princeton, initially as an historian and latterly in the School of Social Science. It was there that he met [[Raymond Geuss]], now a colleague at Cambridge, who, together with [[John Dunn]], forms the so-called "Cambridge School" of political theory.  In 1978 he was appointed to the chair of Political Science at Cambridge University, and in 1996 he was appointed Regius Professor. He was pro-vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1999. In 1979 he married Susan James; they have a daughter and a son.

In the middle 1970s he spent four formative years at the [http://www.ias.edu/ Institute for Advanced Study] at Princeton, initially as an historian and latterly in the School of Social Science. It was there that he met [http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/geuss/geuss_index.html Raymond Geuss], now a colleague at Cambridge, who, together with [[John Dunn]], forms the so-called "Cambridge School" of political theory.  In 1978 he was appointed to the chair of Political Science at Cambridge University, and in 1996 he was appointed Regius Professor. He was pro-vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1999. In 1979 he married Susan James; they have a daughter and a son.

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