Robert Braeme Skepper (born 3 April 1938) is a British alpine skier.
Career He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Charles Palmer-Tomkinson competed at the same time, in the early 1960s.
Personal life His father died on September 22 1962 in France.Times Monday October 1 1962, page 1 He was godparent to the child of John Julian Sheffield, the grandson of Sir Berkeley Sheffield,Times Tuesday July 28 1964, page 12 and Viscount Garmoyle (Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns).Times Tuesday June 29 1965, page 14
He married Hannah Margaret Backhouse in 1968, of Kirby-le-Soken in Essex;Times Monday July 29 1968, page 10 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.Times Saturday April 17 1971, page 26
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,Times Wednesday October 12 1955, page 10 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.Times Monday June 18 1956, page 12
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