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...

William Skene may refer to: William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish lawyer and antiquarian William Baillie Skene (1838–1911) Scottish academic and...

Picts and Caledonians were red haired (rutilantia). Scholars such as William Forbes Skene noted that this description matches Tacitus' description of the Caledonians...

the basis for Dmitri Shostakovich's 1936 opera of the same name. William Forbes Skene, Chronicles, p. 102. Aitchison, Nicholas Boyter (1999). Macbeth:...

The Four Ancient Books of Wales is a term coined by William Forbes Skene to describe four important medieval manuscripts written in Middle Welsh and dating...

history as the last Irish King to be crowned on it. However, historian William Forbes Skene commented: "It is somewhat remarkable that while the Scottish legend...

James Skene of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen. His brothers included the writer William Forbes Skene and his sisters the writer Felicia Mary Frances Skene. He...

Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843) 1892 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809) 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman...

William Forbes Skene the charter exists in the Forbes charter chest in tattered but quite legible condition. The next mention is a John Forbes, whose name...

come from Carmarthen Priory. Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin was described by William Forbes Skene (1809–92) as one of the Four Ancient Books of Wales. Written before...

John of Fordun; Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J. H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Lampeter: Llanerch Press, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...

of British and that Gaelic was a later introduction from Ireland. William Forbes Skene argued in 1837 that Pictish was a Goidelic language, the ancestor...

was said to cure sore eyes. According to historian and antiquary William Forbes Skene, the village of St Fillans, on the eastern end of Loch Earn, takes...

polo player Robert Skene (cricketer) (1908–1988), English cricketer William Forbes Skene (born 1809), Scottish historian and antiquary Sims, Clifford Stanley...

lineage. An origin in Manaw Gododdin was supported by scholars such as William Forbes Skene and John Edward Lloyd. Other scholars connect Gwriad to the Isle...

Regents William Forbes Mackenzie (1807–1862), Scottish Conservative politician William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish historian and antiquary William Forbes...

has little to back it; other writers, such as Thomas Stephens and William Forbes Skene, identify Fflamddwyn instead with Ida's son Theodric, noting the...

the Germanicist model was destroyed in the nineteenth century when William Forbes Skene and others brought medieval Scotland into the frame of serious, recognisably...

any, of The Prophecy of Berchán's kings should be taken to be Áed. William Forbes Skene presumed that the following verses referred to Áed: 129. Another...

John of Fordun; Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J. H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...

ancient dignity, the holder of which was called abthanus or abthane. William Forbes Skene holds that the correct meaning of abthain (or abthane) is not "abbot"...

changed recently, having previously been stable since the time of William Forbes Skene. Skene made Conall a king of the Picts, while later reinterpretations...

appear as Bernicia, rather than Ireland (Hibernia), in some versions. William Forbes Skene saw a connection between this and the account in the Historia de...

John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...

in 1535. There are accounts, including by William Forbes Skene and Alexander Macbain, that state that William Mackintosh, 15th of Mackintosh had burned...

Geography the River Celnius in the North East of Scotland. Both William Forbes Skene and George Chalmers identified the Celnius with Cullen Burn. The...

beheaded on a Fife beach, following a battle at Fife Ness, near Crail. William Forbes Skene reads the Chronicle as placing Causantín's death at Inverdovat (by...

him buried at Dunfermline Abbey, the other at the isle of Iona. William Forbes Skene viewed the conflict between Donald III and Duncan II as being essentially...

Donnachaidh, 1275 – 1749 and Highlanders at Bannockburn. Quoting: William Forbes Skene, vol. 11. pp. 140. Printed by Wood and Son, Mill Street, Perth. Moncreiffe...

1317. They can be found in The Chronicles of the Picts and Scots of William Forbes Skene. The chronicle of John of Fordun (14th century) mentions Giric as...