Duncan Shipley Dalton is an English barrister, former Conservative Party activist[1] and former unionist politician in Northern Ireland, who was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for South Antrim from 1998 to 2003.
Later he completed a master's degree in human rights law at Queen's University Belfast.
[4] In May 1996 Shipley Dalton was an unsuccessful candidate for the Conservative Party in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Strangford, gaining 380 votes or 0.9%.
He endorsed David Campbell, but announced his retirement from Assembly politics at the forthcoming 2003 election.
[6] After standing down, Shipley Dalton moved to the United States, where he was a supporter of the Democratic Party.