Sir Llewelyn Chisholm Dalton (21 April 1871 – 5 January 1945)[1] was a British colonial judge and author.
[2] His paternal grandfather was John Neale Dalton, chaplain to Queen Victoria.
[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] 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.
[5] Dalton received an appointment as Chief Justice of Tanganyika in 1936[6] and after two years was created a Knight Bachelor.