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

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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

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County Council between 1955 and 1964.

Family

On 20 February 1943, Dutton married Joan Molesworth Jenkinson (

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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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