Arthur Banks Skinner

Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911) was Director of the Art Museum division of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London from 1905 to 1908. He died before he was 50 years of age.

Born in Kingsland, London, 4 September 1861 eldest child of accountant and deputy Paymaster of the Royal Courts of Justice George Edward Skinner (1836–1888) and his wife Anne Simpson Banks (1835–1919) and grandson of a Lymington Hampshire solicitors' clerk, he was educated at Dulwich College which he left in 1879. He was granted a B.A. by London University in 1883.

A B Skinner won a 1st in his Civil Service examinations,

He was Director of the Art Museum division of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1905 to 1908. He was appointed Keeper Department of Architecture and Sculpture in 1909. His wife survived him and died in 1950.