Robert Maxwell Dudgeon

Robert Maxwell Dudgeon, CBE, DSO, MC, JP (20 February 1881 -6 Nov. 1962)[1] was a distinguished Scottish soldier and policeman.

The eldest son of Colonel Robert Francis Dudgeon, CB,[2] he was educated at Uppingham School and Loretto School. He joined the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1901;[3] and retired with rank of Brigadier-General in 1920. From 1920 to 1930 he was Governor of HM Prison Edinburgh; and from 1930 to 1945 Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Monday, Nov 12, 1962; pg. 12; Issue 55546
  2. ↑ ‘DUDGEON, Lt-Col and Hon. Col Robert Francis’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 May 2016
  3. ↑ London Gazette
  4. ↑ ‘DUDGEON, Brig.-Gen. Robert Maxwell’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 May 2016
Police appointments
Preceded by
William David Allan		 HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland
1930–1945 		Succeeded by
Sidney Anderson Kinnear


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