He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 6 December 1639; but when the First English Civil War broke out, he left England.
[1] In 1646 Skinner was again at Oxford, and in consideration of his foreign service he was allowed to accumulate both his arts degrees in that same year, graduating B.A.
[1] Skinner was made honorary fellow of the London College of Physicians in December 1664.
Administration of his estate was granted to his sister, Elizabeth Bowyer, and his daughter Stephanie Skinner, on 7 September 1667.
[1] Skinner left behind him some philological treatises in manuscript, and they were edited by Thomas Henshaw and published in London in 1671, under the title of Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ.