Sir Vincent Skinner (1543 – 28 February 1616) was an English politician, who sat in Parliament for numerous constituencies.
He was secretary to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley from c. 1575 to 1593, after which was appointed to the Exchequer as an auditor of the receipt.
Subsequently, he sat for Barnstaple in 1572, Boston three times from 1584; for Boroughbridge in 1592; for St Ives in 1597 and for Preston in 1604.
He commissioned the architect John Thorpe to build a stately home on the foundations of the ruined abbey, which unfortunately collapsed shortly after its completion.
He had married twice, firstly Audrey, the daughter of Richard Ogle of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire and the widow of John Man of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire (and a cousin of Lord Burghley's wife) and secondly Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Fowkes of Symondsbury, Dorset and the widow of Henry Middlemore of Enfield, Middlesex, with whom he had a son.