William Baillie Skene (24 April 1838 – 10 June 1911) was a British academic and political agent.
[1] The second son of Patrick Skene, of Pitlaw House, Fife, Scotland, William Baillie Skeene was born in Edinburgh in 1838.
Educated at Harrow School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he matriculated as an exhibitioner in 1856, he took first-class honours in classical moderations and was elected to a fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford in 1864.
In 1876, he became Principal Agent of the Conservative Party, resigning in 1880.
In 1886, he became acting treasurer of Christ Church, Oxford, and he remained there as a student (fellow) and treasurer until his resignation in 1910, when he returned to his Scottish home, Pitlour.