Francis Henry Bennett Skrine (1847–1933) was an English traveller, orientalist and official in British India.
Clarmont Skrine of Warleigh Lodge, Wimbledon, previously an army officer, and his wife Mary Anne Auchmuty Bennett, daughter of Major Charles Butson Bennett.
[1] He was educated at Blackheath School and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1868.
[2] In 1870 Skrine was appointed assistant magistrate and collector in Nadia district.
[4] He became collector of customs at Calcutta in 1895, and commissioner of Chittagong division, retiring in 1897.