Henry Alan Skinner

{{short description|Canadian writer}}

Henry Alan Lawson Skinner (September 26, 1899, in Erin, Ontario – ?){{cite book |author1=Roberts, Charles George Douglas |author2=Tunnell, Arthur L. |title=The Canadian Who's Who |publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1960 |pages=1026 }} was a Canadian anatomist and classical scholar{{cite book |author=Haubrich, William S. |title=Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins, Second Edition |publisher=American College of Physicians |location=Philadelphia, Pa |year=2003 |pages=vii |isbn=1-930513-49-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xCRO8ORO0EC&dq=%22Henry+alan+Skinner%22+&pg=PP13 }} who wrote The Origin of Medical Terms, published by The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore in 1949. He received his M.B from Toronto,{{cite book |author= University of Western Ontario Faculty of Medicine |title=Announcement |publisher=University of Western Ontario |year=1963|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PaJNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Henry+Alan+Skinner%22 }} and was appointed assistant professor of Anatomy at the University of Western Ontario in 1929.{{cite journal |author= H B Ward |title=Maintaining the Standards and the Scientific Usefulness of the National Parks (announcement) |journal = Science | date=January 4, 1929 |volume =69 |issue=1775 |pages=14–5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h60PAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Henry+Alan+Skinner%22|doi=10.1126/science.69.1775.14 |pmid= 17840450}} By 1963, he had risen to Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at Western Ontario.