JONES SKELTON, Arnoldus (c.1750-93), of Branthwaite, Cumb.

Returned by his brother-in-law, Lord Cornwallis, Skelton supported Administration in all five divisions of February-March 1782, but is not known to have spoken in the House. At the end of March he vacated his seat; and on 1 Apr. Lord Cornwallis’s brother, the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, wrote to William Cornwallis:HMC Var. vi. 329. ‘Skelton is to have or rather has a pension on the list, for it was done by Lord North ... It was absolutely necessary for [Lord Cornwallis] to get rid of Skelton as he had entangled himself with him [presumably Lord North]’. But Skelton’s pension has not been traced.

He died 23 Mar. 1793.