Dudley Skelton
Dudley Skelton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 August 1878 |
| Died | 2 March 1962 (aged 83) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Service years | 1902–1937 |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Conflicts | First World War |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Mentioned in Dispatches |
Major-General Dudley Sheridan Skelton, CB, DSO (8 August 1878 - 2 March 1962) was a British Army officer, author and physician.
Skelton was educated at Bloxham School.[1] He commissioned into the British Army as a probationary lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 1 September 1902.[2] Skelton served in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel in August 1917.[3] He was promoted to colonel in 1930.[4] In 1935 he became Honorary Surgeon to George V.[5][6] He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1936 Birthday Honours, while serving as Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India.[7] He retired as a major-general on 13 October 1937.[8]
Skelton was a descendant of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.[9] His niece was the writer Barbara Skelton.[10]
Publications
- By Motor Through Ceylon (1903)
- This Amazing India (1904)
References
- ^ The Bloxhamist (1945), 346. https://docs.google.com/folderview?id=0B03xEYCatblXN04yQUNFNUlHNGM
- ^ "No. 27470". The London Gazette. 2 September 1902. p. 5684.
- ^ "No. 30252". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 August 1917. p. 8853.
- ^ "No. 33612". The London Gazette. 3 June 1930. p. 3492.
- ^ "The Services". British Medical Journal. 2 (3903): 824. 1935. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3903.824-b. PMC 2461506.
- ^ "No. 34209". The London Gazette. 18 October 1935. p. 6543.
- ^ "No. 15294". The Edinburgh Gazette. 26 June 1936. p. 538.
- ^ "No. 34443". The London Gazette. 12 October 1937. p. 6306.
- ^ "Skelton, Barbara Olive (1916–1996), writer and literary femme fatale". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58311. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Tears Before Bedtime, Barbara Skelton, Hamish Hamilton, 1987, pp. 1, 7, 14-18, 72