Charles Dutton, 7th Baron Sherborne

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

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Background

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 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.[1] He was a Member of Gloucestershire County Council between 1955 and 1964.[2]

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.[3]

On his death, the Barony of Sherborne passed to a cousin, Ralph Stawell Dutton.

Title and styles
  • Charles Dutton (13 May 1911 – 1 January 1920)
  • Honourable Charles Dutton (2 January 1920 – 16 September 1949)
  • Right Honourable Lord Sherborne (17 September 1949 – 25 December 1982)
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References
  1. "ATA Personnel". atamuseum.org.
  2. "Person Page". thepeerage.com.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
James Dutton		 Baron Sherborne
1949–1983		 Succeeded by
Ralph Dutton


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