Dudley Skelton

Major-General Dudley Sheridan Skelton, (8 August 1878 - 2 March 1962) was a British Army officer, author and physician.

Skelton was educated at Bloxham School. He commissioned into the British Army as a probationary lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 1 September 1902. Skelton served in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel in August 1917. He was promoted to colonel in 1930. In 1935 he became Honorary Surgeon to George V. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1936 Birthday Honours, while serving as Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India. He retired as a major-general on 13 October 1937.

Skelton was a descendant of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His niece was the writer Barbara Skelton.

Publications By Motor Through Ceylon (1903) This Amazing India (1904)