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{{Infobox military person
|name =Sir Dudley Ridout
|image=
|birth_name=Dudley Howard Ridout
|birth_date = 15 January 1866<ref name="burkewwii"/>
|birth_place =[[Calcutta]], British India
|death_date = {{dda|3 May 1941|15 January 1866|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Richmond upon Thames]], Surrey, England
|placeofburial = [[Richmond Cemetery]]
|allegiance={{UK}}
|branch=[[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
|serviceyears=
|rank=[[Major-General (United Kingdom)|Major-General]]
|unit=[[Royal Engineers]]
|awards=[[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]<br/>[[Companion of the Order of the Bath]], [[Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]]
}}

[[Major-General#United Kingdom|Major-General]] '''Sir Dudley Howard Ridout''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|CB|CMG}} (15 January 1866 – 3 May 1941) was a British soldier of the [[Royal Engineers]].

==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.<ref>Preston 'Canada's RMC: A history of the Royal Military College' Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1969.</ref><ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page=2892 |ref=Burke }}</ref>

==Education and career==
Dudley Ridout graduated at the [[Royal Military College of Canada]] in [[Kingston, Ontario]] and was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the [[Royal Engineers]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 30 June 1885.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/RIDOUT.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref> He was promoted [[Captain (BARM)|captain]] on 1 October 1894.<ref>Hart′s Army list, 1903</ref> He served on the staff as an intelligence officer in [[South Africa]] during the [[Second Boer War]] from 1900 to 1902,<ref name=lh/> after which he was appointed in command of the 46th (Field) company stationed in South Africa and promoted to [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)|major]] on 23 November 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27501 |page=8440 |date=5 December 1902 }}</ref>

He served in [[World War I]] and was transferred to Singapore Command where from 1915 to 1921 he was [[General Officer Commanding]] the [[Malaya Command|Troops in the Straits Settlements]] and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils there.<ref name=lh/> He retired in 1924.<ref name=lh/>

He died in 1941 in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames and was buried in [[Richmond Cemetery]], Section 8, grave number 9479.<ref>[http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/leisure_and_culture/local_history_and_heritage/people_of_historial_note_buried_in_the_borough_m_to_z.htm People of Note buried in the borough] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027180834/http://richmond.gov.uk/home/leisure_and_culture/local_history_and_heritage/people_of_historial_note_buried_in_the_borough_m_to_z.htm |date=27 October 2011 }}</ref>

==Legacy==
Ridout Row, the row of two terraces of eight small four roomed cottages with an outdoor courtyard on the ground of [[Royal Military College of Canada|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.<ref name=row>[http://www.dnd.ca/site/Commun/ml-fe/article-eng.asp?id=4523 Ridout Row] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224131701/http://www.dnd.ca/site/Commun/ml-fe/article-eng.asp?id=4523 |date=24 February 2012 }}</ref>

==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).<ref name="burkewwii"/>

==References==
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===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.

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