Arthur Dugdale

Colonel Arthur Dugdale (2 February 1869 – 27 April 1941) was a British Army officer. He was Commander of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars during the First World War.

Dugdale was born in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of James Dugdale (1835–1915). He was a first cousin of Conservative MP Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne. When he was 15, James Dugdale purchased the majestic Sezincote House in the Cotswolds. Arthur was educated at Winchester College and at Christ Church, Oxford. and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the 1919 New Year Honours.

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 the British-Dutch resistance member Door de Graaf.

Dudale died at Sezincote House, aged 71.