Lieutenant General Stuart Richard Skeates, CB, CBE (born 1966) is a retired senior British Army officer.

He was educated at The Judd School in Tonbridge, King's College London (BA History, 1988; MA Defence Studies, 1999) and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

[3] He became Commanding Officer of 26th Regiment Royal Artillery in Gütersloh, then Deputy Commander of 52nd Brigade (deployed as Task Force Helmand) and then Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff Operations at Permanent Joint Headquarters.

[5] He was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed as Deputy Commander JFC Brunssum from 4 December 2018.

[6][7] From 12 October 2022 he was on secondment to the Home Office: he is tasked with commanding the refugee processing centre at RAF Manston and dealing with the increased English Channel migrant crossings.