Major Thomas Bridges Boucher Skinner CMG (22 May 1804 – 24 July 1877) was a British Army officer and engineer.

[2] In 1848, Skinner gave a testimony before a Special Working Committee of the British House of Commons on the Matale Rebellion.

He retired from civil service in 1867, and was celebrated for his achievements by the British administration, planters, newspapers as well as local Mudaliyars.

Skinner wrote an autobiography, Fifty Years in Ceylon, edited by his daughter Annie and published in 1891.

[2] Skinner had six children: Marianne Theresa (1839–1901); Thomas Edward Burnes (c.1842-1902) who served as the Postmaster General of Ceylon, between 1871 and 1896; George Burrell (c.1844-1883) a captain in the 15th Regiment; William Graham (C.1846-?)