Henry Aylmer Skelton (11 October 188430 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 and ordained priest in February 1912 at Chertsey Parish Church (his title church) — both times by John Randolph, Bishop suffragan of Guildford. 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[4] then three years later Bishop of Bedford.[5] He was consecrated a bishop on St Matthias' Day (24 February) 1939, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. In 1942 he was translated to be the Bishop of Lincoln[6] where he stayed for four years only because of poor health.