Sir Dudley Forwood, 3rd Baronet

Sir Dudley Richard Forwood, 3rd Baronet (6 June 1912 – 25 January 2001) was an English diplomat and courtier who was sole equerry to the Duke of Windsor after his abdication in 1937 until the outbreak of war in 1939.

Early life Forwood was born on 6 June 1912 into an old Lancashire family who had made their wealth in Liverpool from shipping. He was the son of Sir Dudley Baines Forwood, 2nd Baronet and Norah Isabella Lockett. He also served as chairman of Crufts dog show from 1973 to 1987. Upon the Windsors move to Paris in 1939, Forwood joined them at their new house at 24 Boulevard Suchet. While there, his duties included escorting the Duchess while she called on various English residents in Paris. Forwood left the Windsor's service in 1939 when he was summoned back to the Scots Guards. From her marriage to Cullingford, she was the mother of Rodney Simon Dudley Cullingford (1940–1999). Upon Forwood adopting him, Rodney changed his name to Rodney Simon Dudley Forwood by deed poll. He married Jennifer Jane Nelson, Baroness Arlington, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Eustace John Blois Nelson and Lady Margaret Jane FitzRoy (sister of the 9th Duke of Grafton and granddaughter of the 8th Duke of Grafton), in 1964.

Lady Forwood died in 1999. Sir Dudley died on 25 January 2001. As his adopted stepson could not inherit the baronetcy, it passed to his cousin, Peter Noel Forwood. Upon the 4th Baronet's death in 2019, the baronetcy became extinct.