births
April 25, 1939
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, English historian and academic
Robert Skidelsky
Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume, award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). Skidelsky read history at Jesus College, Oxford, and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, England.