Dudley Ridout

Sir Dudley Ridout
Sir Dudley Ridout
Birth name	Dudley Howard Ridout
Born	15 January 1866

CMG (15 January 1866 – 3 May 1941) was a British soldier of the Royal Engineers

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Background

He was born in Calcutta, British India to Major Joseph Bramley Ridout and Wilmot Beresford Hayter. His father was a British soldier who served on the

Bhutan expedition with the 80th Regiment 1864–5. His father had been on the staff of the Hythe School of Musketry and was the captain of cadets at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario Canada. His grandfather Thomas Gibbs Ridout was deputy assistant commissary general during the War of 1812 and a cashier of the Bank of Canada from 1822 to 1861.^[2]^[1]

Education and career

Dudley Ridout graduated at the

major on 23 November 1902.^[5]

He served in

General Officer Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils there.^[3] He retired in 1924.^[3]

He died in 1941 in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames and was buried in Richmond Cemetery, Section 8, grave number 9479.^[6]

Legacy

Ridout Row, the row of two terraces of eight small four roomed cottages with an outdoor courtyard on the ground of RMC, was named in honour of Dudley Howard Ridout's father, Captain Joseph Bramley Ridout. The Ridout Row was renovated and currently houses the Canadian Defence Academy headquarters.^[7]

Personal life

In 1904, Ridout married Maude Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of Charles Henry Hutton. They had a son, Colonel Dudley Gethin Bramley Ridout CBE (born 1906), who commanded 1/6 South Staffordshires in Normandy 1944, and a daughter, Estelle Wilmot Hutton (born 1911).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2892.
^ Preston 'Canada's RMC: A history of the Royal Military College' Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1969.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
^ Hart′s Army list, 1903
^ "No. 27501". The London Gazette. 5 December 1902. p. 8440.
^ People of Note buried in the borough Archived 27 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ Ridout Row Archived 24 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine

Books

4237 Dr. Adrian Preston & Peter Dennis (Edited) Swords and Covenants Rowman And Littlefield, London. Croom Helm. 1976.
H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College of Canada 1997 Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969.
H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston Canada's RMC – A History of Royal Military College Second Edition 1982.
H16511 Dr. Richard Preston R.M.C. and Kingston: The effect of imperial and military influences on a Canadian community 1968.
H1877 R. Guy C. Smith (editor) As You Were! Ex-Cadets Remember. In 2 Volumes. Volume I: 1876–1918. Volume II: 1919–1984. Royal Military College. [Kingston]. The R.M.C. Club of Canada. 1984.

Military offices
Preceded by Raymond Reade	GOC Troops in the Straits Settlements 1915–1921	Succeeded by Sir Neill Malcolm

[burkewwii-1] Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2892.

[2] Preston 'Canada's RMC: A history of the Royal Military College' Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1969.

[lh-3] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

[4] Hart′s Army list, 1903

[5] "No. 27501". The London Gazette. 5 December 1902. p. 8440.

[6] People of Note buried in the borough Archived 27 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[row-7] Ridout Row Archived 24 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine

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