Theodore Cressy Skeat (15 February 1907 – 25 June 2003) was a British academic and librarian at the British Museum, where he worked as Assistant Keeper (from 1931), Deputy Keeper (from 1948), and Keeper of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian (from 1961 to 1972). He was the grandson of noted philologist Walter William Skeat. Skeat was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1929 with a second-class BA in the Classical Tripos. Following a further short spell as a student at the British School at Athens, an academic institute specialising in archaeology and classical studies, he was recruited by the British Museum in 1931. Skeat's work coincided with two important acquisitions by the British Museum Trustees: the Codex Sinaiticus and the apocryphal Gospel Egerton 2 Papyrus (a.k.a. the Egerton Gospel). He made a name for himself with important contributions to palaeography, papyrology and codicology, particularly in relation to these two acquisitions. Skeat was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1963, but resigned (along with his friend Colin Roberts) in 1979, in protest against its decision not to expel Anthony Blunt after the latter was exposed as a former Soviet spy.

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