Aylmer Skelton


Henry Aylmer Skelton was a bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.
He was born in 1884 and educated at Felsted, Keble College, Oxford and Bishops' College, Cheshunt. 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 then three years later Bishop of Bedford. In 1942 he was translated to be the Bishop of Lincoln where he stayed for four years only because of poor health.