Augustine Skinner (c. 1594 – 11 June 1672) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1642 and 1659.

[1] He was an active justice of the peace throughout the Commonwealth period, and it was said that Cromwell had great confidence in him as a magistrate.

), to allow them to sell other lands to raise funds, Skinner's seat at Tutsham Hall being sold to one Edward Goulston.

Skinner was still unable to meet his obligations and, being arrested for debt, he eventually died in the Fleet Prison in 1672, aged 78.

Skinner made two good marriages, to Elizabeth Twisden, daughter of Serjeant-at-Law Richard Braithwaite, and to Ann Franklin, daughter of Thomas Franklin, an Alderman of the City of London; but his only son, also called Augustine (born 1618), lived less than a year, so that his heir was his brother, William.