Early Career
Dugdale was from a high-class family, the only son of Colonel Arthur Dugdale who was Commander of the Queens's Own Oxfordshire Hussars during the First World War. He was also second cousin of Thomas Dugdale, who was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1951 to 1954. He was sent to Wellington College, from where he moved to Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving Oxford, Dugdale joined the Diplomatic Service and was stationed in Beijing as an Attaché in the British embassy.
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