| Nationality | British |
|---|---|
| Sport | Alpine skiing |
| Birth date | 3 April 1938 (age 88) |
Robert Braeme Skepper (born 3 April 1938) is a British alpine skier.
Career
He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics.[2] Charles Palmer-Tomkinson competed at the same time, in the early 1960s.
Personal life
His father died on September 22 1962 in France.[3] He was godparent to the child of John Julian Sheffield, the grandson of Sir Berkeley Sheffield,[4] and Viscount Garmoyle (Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns).[5]
He married Hannah Margaret Backhouse in 1968, of Kirby-le-Soken in Essex;[6] 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.[7]
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,[8] 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.[9]
Arms
| Year adopted | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Crest | In Front of a Fleur de Lys Azure a Greyhound Courant Or. |
| Escutcheon | Ermine on Chevron Flor at the point Gules three Roses Or all within a Bordure of the last.[1] |
| Notes | Granted to Edmund Drane Skepper |
References
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: Harrison.
- ^ "Robert Skepper Olympic Results". 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