Ernest Willington Skeats (1 November 1875 – 20 January 1953) was an English-Australian geologist and academic.
[1] Skeats was born in Berais Town, Southampton, England, son of Frank George Skeats, a bank clerk and his wife Alice Erena Martin and was educated at Handel and Hartley colleges, Southampton, and entered the Royal College of Science, London, where he received a D.Sc.
[2] Skeats moved to Australia in 1904, succeeding John Walter Gregory in the chair of geology and mineralogy at the University of Melbourne.
[1][3] He won the Clarke Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1929.
[1] In 1937 he was awarded the Mueller Medal by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.