Basil Skinner

Dr Basil Chisholm Skinner OBE (7 November 1923 – 5 April 1995) was a Scottish historian and architectural conservation campaigner.

[2] His studies were interrupted by the Second World War during which he served first with the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry before transferring to the Intelligence Corps.

He returned to the University of Edinburgh after the war and completed his degree in history also winning the Cousin Prize in Fine Art.

[2] In the 1960s he campaigned against a proposal by Stirlingshire County Council to infill a large section of the Union Canal.

[4] From 1955 to 1983 he lived in Deanbrae (aka Kirkbrae) House, a distinctive former toll-house, partly of 17th century origin, but mainly by James Graham Fairley in 1892.