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Sir Llewelyn Chisholm Dalton (21 April 1871 – 5 January 1945)[1] was a British colonial judge and author.
He was the only son of William Edward Dalton and his wife Mathilda.[2] His paternal grandfather was John Neale Dalton, chaplain to Queen Victoria.[3] Dalton was educated at Marlborough College and went then to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in the historical tripos in 1900 and a Master of Arts five years thereafter.[2][4]
Dalton was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1901 and became then employed as legal assistant at the Land Settlement Board of the Orange River Colony.[3] A year later, he was appointed a justice of the peace and worked as assistant resident magistrate.[3] In 1910, when the Colony was incorporated into the Union of South Africa, Dalton moved to British Guiana joining its Supreme Court as a registrar.[3] Until 1919, he acted at several times in various offices and in June of that year became a Puisne Judge.[5]
He was transferred to the Gold Coast Colony in 1923 and to Ceylon in 1925.[5] Dalton received an appointment as Chief Justice of Tanganyika in 1936[6] and after two years was created a Knight Bachelor.[7] He retired in 1939 and returned to England.[1]
In 1906, Dalton married Beatrice Templeton, daughter of William B. Cotton; they had a son and three daughters.[5] She died in 1823 and after eight years as a widower, he remarried Winifred, only daughter of Edward Adams.[5] Dalton died in Sussex in 1945.[1]
One of his sons was the colonial lawyer and judge Philip Neale Dalton.
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