Cornelius Neale Dalton

Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton KCMG CB (24 September 1842, Walthamstow – 19 October 1920, Hampstead)[1] was a British barrister, civil servant, and author.

[2] After education at Blackheath Proprietary School, Cornelius Neale Dalton matriculated in October 1861 at the University of Cambridge.

He was from 1893 to 1897 Member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture, from 1896 to 1901 Member of the Royal Commission on Local Taxation, and from 1897 to 1909 Comptroller-General of Patents (working at the Patent Office headquarters).

[1] He was the author of The Real Captain Kidd (1911)[3] and The Life of Thomas Pitt (1915).

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