Robert Skepper
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| Nationality | British |
| Born | 3 April 1938 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Alpine skiing |
Robert Braeme Skepper (born 3 April 1938) is a British alpine skier.
Career
[edit]He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics.[1] Charles Palmer-Tomkinson competed at the same time, in the early 1960s.
Personal life
[edit]His father died on September 22 1962 in France.[2] He was godparent to the child of John Julian Sheffield, the grandson of Sir Berkeley Sheffield,[3] and Viscount Garmoyle (Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns).[4]
He married Hannah Margaret Backhouse in 1968, of Kirby-le-Soken in Essex;[5] her great-grandfather was Sir Jonathan Backhouse. They had three daughters in 1969, and 1976 (his daughter died on July 8 1996, aged 19, from malaria when in Namibia) and 1988, and a son in April 1971.[6]
His eldest brother's daughter is Catrina Skepper (born May 1962), who in the mid-1980s appeared in a Cadbury Flake advert, featured in a canoe. Catrina's father also skied competitively internationally for the University of Cambridge, in the 1950s. His sister, Gillian Mary Skepper, from Neuilly-sur-Seine,[7] married Sir Adrian Cadbury on Saturday 16 June 1956 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge; Sir Adrian Cadbury had been an Olympic rower in 1952.[8]
Arms
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References
[edit]- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Robert Skepper Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ↑ Times Monday October 1 1962, page 1
- ↑ Times Tuesday July 28 1964, page 12
- ↑ Times Tuesday June 29 1965, page 14
- ↑ Times Monday July 29 1968, page 10
- ↑ Times Saturday April 17 1971, page 26
- ↑ Times Wednesday October 12 1955, page 10
- ↑ Times Monday June 18 1956, page 12
- ↑ Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: Harrison.
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