Sir Llewelyn Chisholm Dalton (21 April 1871 – 5 January 1945) was a British colonial judge and author.

Background and education

He was the only son of William Edward Dalton and his wife Mathilda. His paternal grandfather was

John Neale Dalton Canon John Neale Dalton (24 September 1839 – 28 July 1931) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He was a chaplain to Queen Victoria, a Canon of Windsor The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George ...

, chaplain to Queen Victoria.Mercer (1924), p. 602 Dalton was educated at

Marlborough College Marlborough College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Independent school (United Kingdom), independent boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church ...

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.Debrett (1922), p. 438

Career

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. A year later, he was appointed a

Justice of the Peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

and worked as assistant resident magistrate. In 1910, when the Colony was incorporated into the Union of South Africa, Dalton moved to

British Guiana British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...

joining its

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as a registrar. Until 1919, he acted at several times in various offices and in June of that year became a Puisne Judge. He was transferred to the

Gold Coast Colony The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the ad ...

in 1923 and to

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

in 1925.Who's Who (1963), p. 810 Dalton received an appointment as

Chief Justice of Tanganyika The chief justice of Tanzania is the highest post in the judicial system of Tanzania. The chief justice is appointed by the president and presides over the Court of Appeal of Tanzania. History After the First World War, the former German-governed ...

in 1936 and after two years was created a Knight Bachelor. He retired in 1939 and returned to England.

Family

In 1906, Dalton married Beatrice Templeton, daughter of William B. Cotton; they had a son and three daughters. She died in 1823 and after eight years as a widower, he remarried Winifred, only daughter of Edward Adams. Dalton died in

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

in 1945.Weerasooria (1971), p. 129

Works

*''Law Reports, British Guiana'', ed. *''Statutory Rules and Orders, British Guiana'' *''The Civil Law of British Guiana'', (1921) *''Digest of British Guiana Case Law'', (1922) *''Burge's Colonial and Foreign Laws, Vol. IV'', ed.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dalton, Llewelyn 1871 births 1945 deaths People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of Gray's Inn Knights Bachelor Tanganyika (territory) judges Chief justices of Tanzania Place of birth missing British Guiana judges Gold Coast (British colony) judges Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Ceylon