Ruth Filby Skelton (d. 1980)[1] was a British biologist who was one of the first women elected to the Physiological Society in 1915.
[2] She was active in the Chelsea Physical Training College Old Students' Association in the 1900s and 1910s.
[3] In 1915, when the Physiological Society had voted to admit women, Skelton was proposed for membership by Jospeh Barcroft along with Florence Buchanan, Winifred Cullis, Enid Tribe, Constance Leetham, and S.C.M.
[5] By that time, she had made several publications about her work at the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine.
One of her notable contributions was a collaboration with Harriette Chick in which they used guinea pigs to determine the antiscorbutic properties of foods.