Lieutenant-General Dudley Sheridan Skelton, CB, DSO, MC (8 August 1878 - 2 March 1962) was a British Army officer, author and physician.

[2] Skelton served in the First World War in the Royal Artillery, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross.

He was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel in August 1917,[3] and transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps.

[4] In 1935 he became Honorary Surgeon to George V.[5][6] He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1936 Birthday Honours, while serving as Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India.

[8] Skelton was a descendant of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.