Henry Aylmer Skelton (11 October 1884 – 30 August 1959) was a bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.

He was born in 1884^[1][2] and educated at Felsted, Keble College, Oxford and Bishops' College, Cheshunt.^[3] He was made deacon in Advent 1910 (18 December) at Farnham Parish Church^[4] and ordained priest in February 1912 at Chertsey Parish Church (his title church) — both times by John Randolph, Bishop suffragan of Guildford.^[5] After a curacy at Chertsey he moved to be Vicar of Epsom. After a spell in the Antipodes he became Rector of Toddington then Sub Dean of St Albans Cathedral. In 1936 he was appointed Archdeacon of St Albans^[6] then three years later Bishop of Bedford.^[7] He was consecrated a bishop on St Matthias' Day (24 February) 1939, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.^[8] In 1942 he was translated to be the Bishop of Lincoln^[9] where he stayed for four years only because of poor health.

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