Arthur Banks Skinner

Born in Kingsland, London, 4 September 1861 eldest child of accountant and deputy Paymaster of the Royal Courts of Justice George Edward Skinner (1836–1888) and his wife Anne Simpson Banks (1835–1919) and grandson of a Lymington Hampshire solicitors' clerk,[1] he was educated at Dulwich College[2] which he left in 1879.

A B Skinner won a 1st in his Civil Service examinations,[2] joined the Department of Science and Art and became a junior assistant at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1879.

[2] His obituary in The Times reports that he was a close friend of George Salting and responsible for that man's "magnificent bequest" to the museum.

[3] On 22 October 1895 he married Bertha Julia Filmer of Tunbridge Wells.

[3] A B Skinner was an honorary member of Egyptian Institute Cairo, Academy of Fine Arts Milan and Archaeological Society Brussels.