Skrine was born on 21 March 1885, son of Duncan William Hume Skrine and his wife Amy, née Hanham, the third of five children.[1]
He attended Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Oxford University.[2]
In 1927 he married Evelyn (born in Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1894), daughter of Frederick Winterbotham.[3]
Joining the Sudan Political Service, Skrine served in Khartoum in 1908, in Fung Province from 1909 to 1912, in Dongola from 1913 to 1917 and in Kassala from 1918 to 1922.
He was assistant to Willis in 1923-1924.
In December 1922, as deputy governor of Kassala province, he signed an agreement with Dr. Agenore Frangipani to rectify the border between Eritrea and Sudan. The British-Italian agreement was written in French, still the common diplomatic language.[4]
The agreement was ratified through an exchange of notes between Benito Mussolini and ambassador Sir R. Graham on 19 May 1924.[5]
Skrine was governor of Mongalla from 1924 until 1929.
On 6 November 1929 he was granted the Insignia of the Third Class of the Order of the Nile.[6]
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|title=Notes regarding Chiefs Courts and Native Administration in Mongalla Province
|date=1 December 1924
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|title=Notes on Current Topics in Mongalla Province
|date=March 1929
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4. ^{{cite web |url=http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/14/31/00027540.pdf |work=UN Treaty |title=Accord anglo-italien relatif à la Rectification de la Frontière entre l'Ërythrêe et le Soudan |date=26 December 1922 |accessdate=2011-08-01 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33550/pages/7217/page.pdf |work=The London Gazette |title=Whitehall, November 6, 1929 |date=8 November 1929 |page=7217 |accessdate=2011-08-01}}