Sculptor in a wide range of materials, letter-cutter, watercolourist, draughtsman and teacher, born in Glasgow. After Norwich Cathedral Choir School and Bablake School in Coventry Skelton was one of his uncle Eric Gill’s last apprentices, 1940. In World War II he served in the Army in the Far East. Studied at Coventry School of Art and Architecture under Victor Candey and Walter Ashworth, also studying widely on the continent and in Asia. Skelton set up his own workshop and studio in 1950. He showed at RA, Alwin Gallery, Chichester Museum, elsewhere in England and abroad. His work is in many cathedrals, including St Paul’s, Chichester, Hereford, Lincoln and Portsmouth. Bodleian Library in Oxford, Chichester Museum and Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry hold examples.