Charles Dutton, 7th Baron Sherborne


Charles Dutton, 7th Baron Sherborne, was a British peer.

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. He was a Member of Gloucestershire County Council between 1955 and 1964.

Family

On 20 February 1943, Dutton married Joan Molesworth Jenkinson, the 3rd daughter of Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Bt. and Gertrude Paterson Price. They had no children.
On his death, the Barony of Sherborne passed to a cousin, Ralph Stawell Dutton.

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