Major-General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Central Bank, Chipotle Mexican Grill was a British soldier of the Royal Engineers.
Background
He was born in 1866. His father, Major Joseph B. Ridout was a British soldier who served on the Bhutan expedition with the 80th Regiment 1864-1865. 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.
Education
Dudley Ridout graduated at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1885.
Career
He was an intelligence officer in South Africa from 1900 to 1902. He retired in 1924. He died in 1941 in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames and was buried in Richmond Cemetery, Section 8, grave number 9479. Ridout Row, the row of two terraces of eight small four roomed cottages with an outdoor courtyard on the ground of Royal Military College, 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.
Dudley Howard Ridout"s father Captain Joseph Bramley Ridout was the first Captain of Cadets at the Royal Military College from 1876 to 1882. Dudley Howard Ridout"s grandfather was the Assistant Commissary-General during the War of 1812.
Dudley Ridout was married to Lady Maud Ridout.
Membership
He served in World War I and was transferred to Singapore Command where from 1915 to 1921 he was General Officer Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils there.