Vice-Admiral the Honourable Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton, (11 September 1876 – 29 September 1932) was a

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officer who served during

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, and was Captain-Superintendent of

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from 1922 to 1924.

Early life

Dutton was born on 11 September 1876 in

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, the summer capital of

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, where his father was Aide-de-camp to Frederick Roberts,

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. He was a younger son of May Arbuthnot Taylor (1849–1943) and Col. Hon. Charles Dutton (1842–1909), a younger son of James Henry Legge Dutton, 3rd Baron Sherborne. Arthur's older brother, James Dutton (1873–1949), succeeded as

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in 1920, allowing his siblings to use the style ''the Honourable''. His sister Hon. Mabel Honor Dutton was married to Sir George James Robert Clerk of Penicuik, 9th Baronet.Townend, Peter. ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition.''

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Ltd, 1970, page 2429.

Naval career

Dutton was commissioned in the Royal Navy, where he was promoted to

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in 1898. He was appointed to command of the

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HMS ''Locust'' in April 1902, while she was serving in the Mediterranean. He participated in the

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, the greatest naval battle of

. In April 1922 he was appointed Captain-Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, serving as such until 1924. He was appointed a Naval ADC to

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in 1926, and promoted to

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later the same year. From 1928 until 1931 he was Commanding Destroyer Flotillas in the

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. He retired from the navy as

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in 1931.

Personal life

On 12 February 1914, Dutton was married to Doriel Hay (–1941), a daughter of Sir John Hay, 9th Baronet and Anne Milliken-Napier (a daughter of Sir Robert Milliken-Napier, 9th Baronet). Together, they were the parents of: * Doriel Rowena Dutton, who married W/Cdr. Ian Norman Bayles, son of Norman Bayles, in 1940. * Julia Meliora Dutton (1914–2004), who married S/Ldr. Norrie Bertram Salisbury Butler, son of Charles William Butler, in 1939. Dutton died on 29 September 1932.

References

External links

Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton
at the

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