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Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade (b.20 Mar 1859-d.20 Jan 1928), Commander of the Royal Naval War College (1904-1907), Director of Naval Intelligence (1909) CIC East Indes (1912) and then sent by Churchill to investigate purchasing a stake in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP). He became a Government-appointed director of BP. He retired in Aug 1917 but remained a director of Anglo-Persian until his death. In 1887 he married Florence Madeleine, eldest daughter of Mr James Carr Saunders of Milton Heath, Dorking and had two daughters.

Skyse was an artist based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Robert Skeoch is a photographer.

G.W. Skene was a student at Queen's University.

Isabel Skelton, an author based in Kingston, Ontario, was born Isabel Murphy in 1877 in Antrim, Ontario. She entered Queen's University in 1897, where she studied History and English. In 1901, she received a Master of Arts degree from Queen's University. She also won the University Medal in History. After her marriage to Oscar Douglas Skelton in 1904, the couple was closely associated with Queen's, where he was Dean of Arts. In 1925, the Skeltons moved to Ottawa, where he worked with the Department of External Affairs until his death in 1941. After her husband's death, Mrs. Skelton moved to Montreal, where she spent the rest of her life. Mrs. Skelton was the author of The Backswoodswoman; The Chronicle of Pioneer Home Life in Upper and Lower Canada (1924); The Life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1925) and William Bell: A Man Austere, Parson and Pioneer (1947). She died in 1956.

Alex Skelton (1907-1950), Assistant Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce in Canada, was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Kingston when his father, O.D. Skelton, was Dean of the Faculty of Arts. After obtaining his B.A. degree with honours from Queen's (1927), he attended University College, Oxford, for two years and gained his B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics. When he returned to Canada, he received an appointment as acting professor of political science at the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1931, became economist of the Beauharnois Power Corporation, Montreal. He joined the Bank of Canada in 1935 as chief of the research department, and was made research adviser in 1944. In this capacity, he prepared reports on the financial position of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and served as secretary of the Rowell-Sirois Commission from 1937-1940. While in Lagos, Nigeria at the request of the British government and through his membership on the Royal Commission, he was drowned in a yachting accident.