Colonel Arthur Dugdale (2 February 1869 – 27 April 1941) was a

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officer. He was Commander of the

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars The Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (QOOH) was a Yeomanry Cavalry regiment of the British Army's auxiliary forces, formed in 1798. It saw service in the Second Boer War with 40 and 59 Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry and was the first Yeomanry ...

during the

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. Dugdale was born in

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, Lancashire, the son of James Dugdale (1835–1915). He was a first cousin of Conservative MP

Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne Thomas Lionel Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne, (20 July 1897 – 26 March 1977), known as Sir Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baronet from 1945 to 1959, was a British Conservative Party politician. He resigned as a government minister over the Crichel Dow ...

. When he was 15, James Dugdale purchased the majestic

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in the Cotswolds. Arthur was educated at

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and at Christ Church, Oxford. During the First World War, he commanded the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration on 20 June 1913, appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the

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and awarded the

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in the

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. At Adlestrop, Gloucestershire on 24 July 1895 he married Jessie Stanley Arnold, daughter of Colonel Stanley Arnold CB JP, of Barton House in Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire. They were divorced on 5 June 1899. In 1904, he married Ethel Innes, (know to the family as "Outoo") eldest daughter of Colonel John Sherston and sister of Brigadier John Reginald Vivian Sherston and Geoffrey Sherston. She would become a suffragette. They had a son, John Dugdale, a journalist and Labour politician. His niece through Ethel was Door de Graff. Dudale died at Sezincote House, aged 71.

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