William Forbes Skene

William Forbes Skene WS FRSE FSA (Scot) DCL LLD (7 Yuni 1809 - 29 Agusta 1892), lauya ne FSA (Scotland) , masanin tarihi kuma masanin tarihi.

Ya kafa kamfanin lauya na Scotland Skene Edwards wanda ya shahara a cikin karni na 20 amma ya ɓace a 2008 lokacin da ya haɗu da Morton Fraser . 

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An haife shi a Inverey, ɗan na biyu na abokin Sir Walter Scott, James Skene (1775-1864), na Rubislaw, kusa da Aberdeen, da matarsa, Jane Forbes, 'yar Sir William Forbes, Baronet na 6 na Pitsligo . 

Iyalin sun koma Edinburgh a 1817, da farko suna zaune tare da kawunsa, Andrew Skene sannan daga 1820 suna zaune a 126 Princes Street da ke fuskantar Edinburgh Castle . 

Ya yi karatu a Edinburgh" id="mwPg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Royal High School, Edinburgh">Makarantar Sakandare a Edinburgh .  Daga nan aka koya masa aiki a matsayin lauya na farko ga Francis Wilson WS a filin majalisa sannan ga Henry Jardine WS kuma a filin majalisun.

Daga nan ya yi karatun shari'a a Jami'ar St Andrews da Jami'ar Edinburgh, kuma yana da sha'awar musamman a cikin nazarin ilimin Celtic da adabi. A cikin 1832, ya zama Marubuci ga Signet (WS), kuma jim kadan bayan haka ya sami nadin hukuma a sashen lissafi na Kotun Taron, wanda ya rike har zuwa 1865. Sha'awarsa ta farko a tarihin da kayan tarihi na Highlands na Scotland ya haifar da 'ya'yan itace na farko a 1837, lokacin da ya buga The Highlanders of Scotland, their Origin, History and Antiquities .

A shekara ta 1847, a lokacin yunwar dankali ta Highland, an nada shi Sakatare ga Babban Kwamitin Taimako na Highland . A wannan matsayi ya yi aiki tare da Sir Charles Trevelyan, Mataimakin Sakataren Baitulmalin.

A shekara ta 1859 an zabe shi Fellow na Royal Society na Edinburgh wanda ya ba da shawara shine Cosmo Innes . Ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kungiyar daga 1869 zuwa 1871. 

Babban aikinsa, duk da haka, shine Celtic Scotland, Tarihin Tsohon Alban (3 vols., Edinburgh, 1876-1880), watakila mafi mahimmancin gudummawa ga Tarihin Scotland da aka rubuta a cikin karni na 19. A shekara ta 1879 an sanya shi Dokta na Dokar Jama'a (DCL) na Jami'ar Oxford, kuma a shekara ta 1881 Masanin Tarihi na Royal na Scotland. An nada shi Mataimakin Lieutenant na Edinburgh a 1886. Scotsman newspaper 13 July 2008

William Forbes Skene ya kasance babban memba na ikilisiya na St Vincent's Scottish Episcopal Church a St Vincent Street a Stockbridge a arewacin Edinburgh . Ana tunawa da shi a can ta hanyar wani shahararren abin tunawa a bangon kudancin jirgin. Wani mai faɗakarwa na Bishara, ya yi jayayya cewa, tun lokacin da Babban Synod na Ikilisiyar Episcopal ta Scotland na 1863 ya kafa Littafin Addu'ar Ingilishi a matsayin babban iko ga bautar Ikilisiyar kuma Ikilisiyar Irish Episcopal Church ta karɓi Mataki talatin da tara na Ikilisiya a matsayin yadin koyarwa, don St Vincent ya kasance a waje da wannan coci ba zai iya zama mai adalci ba.
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