Llewelyn Dalton

Sir Llewelyn Chisholm Dalton (21 April 1871 – 5 January 1945) 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.

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. Dalton received an appointment as Chief Justice of Tanganyika in 1936 and after two years was created a Knight Bachelor. He retired in 1939 and returned to England.

One of his sons was the colonial lawyer and judge Philip Neale Dalton.

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.