Arthur Dugdale
Colonel Arthur Dugdale was a British Army officer. He was Commander of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars during the First World War.
Dugdale was born in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of James Dugdale. He was a first cousin of Conservative MP Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne. When he was 15, James Dugdale purchased the majestic Sezincote House in the Cotswolds. Arthur was educated at Winchester College and at Christ Church, Oxford.
During the First World War, he commanded the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1915 Birthday Honours and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the 1919 New Year Honours.
In 1904, he married Ethel Innes, eldest daughter of Colonel John Sherston and sister of Brigadier John Reginald Vivian Sherston. They had a son, John Dugdale, a journalist and Labour politician.
Dudale died at Sezincote House, aged 71.
