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Skeffington is a village in Leicestershire. It may also refer to:
People
Surname
A. M. Skeffington (1890–1976), American optometrist
Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene (1873–1956), British Army officer and politician
Anthony Skeffington (died after 1535), English-born cleric and judge in Ireland
Arthur Skeffington (1909–1971), British politician
Clotworthy Skeffington, 3rd Viscount Massereene (1661–1714), Anglo-Irish soldier and politician
Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene (1742–1805), Anglo-Irish peer who was imprisoned in France for almost twenty years for enormous debts
Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene (1842–1905), Anglo-Irish peer
Henry Skeffington, 3rd Earl of Massereene (1744–1811), Anglo-Irish British Army officer and politician
Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet (c. 1590–1651), English landowner and politician
John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (1632–1695), Anglo-Irish politician and official
John Skeffington, 10th Viscount Massereene (1812–1863), Irish poet
John Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene (born 1940), British peer
Lumley Skeffington (1771–1850), British baronet, fop and playwright
Richard Skeffington (died 1647), English landowner and Member of Parliament
Thomas Skevington or Skeffington (died 1533), English Bishop of Bangor
Thomas Skeffington (MP) (1550–1600), English Member of Parliament for
Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard (1772–1843), Irish politician
William Skeffington (c. 1465–1535), English knight and Lord Deputy of Ireland
William Skeffington (died 1571) , English Member of Parliament
William John Skeffington (1747–1811), Irish politician
Given name
Fictional characters
Frank Skeffington, protagonist of the 1956 novel
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Job Skeffington, title character of
Mr. Skeffington , a 1944 film based on the 1940 novel of the same name, played by Claude Rains
Titles
Skeffington baronets , two titles, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain
See also
Topics referred to by the same term