Skeffington is a village in Leicestershire. Additionally it is used as follows: People Given name Skeffington Lutwidge (1737-1814), Royal Navy admiral Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge (1802-1873), barrister, Commissioner in Lunacy and early photographer: uncle of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll Surname Arthur Marten Skeffington, (1890-1976), American optometrist Arthur Skeffington, (1909-1971), British politician Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, (1878-1916) Irish suffragist pacifist writer Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, (1877-1946) suffragette and Irish nationalist John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene, (1914-1992), British politician and landowner John Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene, (born 1940) British peer Sir Lumley Skeffington, 2nd Baronet, (1771-1850) British nobleman and playwright Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, (1909-1970), Irish university lecturer and Senator Sir William Skeffington, (c. 1465-1535), Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir William Farrell-Skeffington, 1st Baronet, (1742-1815), British soldier Title Skeffington baronets Fiction Mr. Skeffington, 1944 film starring Bette Davis, from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim Frank Skeffington, the protagonist of the 1956 novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. Other Skeffington's Gyves a variant name of Scavenger's daughter See also Skivington Viscount Massereene