Charles Dutton, 7th Baron Sherborne (13 May 1911 – 25 December 1982), was a British peer.

Background

Charles Thomas Sherborne Dutton was the son of Lt. Col. James Huntly Dutton, 6th Baron Sherborne, and Ethel Mary Baird.

Career

Dutton was a ferry pilot with the

Air Transport Auxiliary The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up at the start of the Second World War with headquarters at White Waltham Airfield in Berkshire. The ATA ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factori ...

between 1940 and 1945. He was one of at least four one-armed ATA pilots. His right arm was amputated due to a congenital birth defect. He was a Member of

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

County Council between 1955 and 1964.

Family

On 20 February 1943, Dutton married Joan Molesworth Jenkinson ( née Dunn, widow of John Anthony Jenkinson; d. 1982), the 3rd daughter of Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Bt. and Gertrude Paterson Price. They had no children. On his death, the Barony of Sherborne passed to a cousin, Ralph Stawell Dutton.

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Painting of Charles Dutton as a boy
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