Walter Scott Dalgleish (25 March 1834 – 15 February 1897) was a British historian and author.
His publications include Great Speeches from Shakespeare's Plays: with Notes and a Life of Shakespeare (1891), Great Britain and Ireland, 1689–1887 (1895) and Mediaeval England, from the English Settlement to the Reformation (1896).
He attended Royal High School and University in Edinburgh.
[2] He worked as an editor with Edinburgh publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons.
He had been living at 25 Mayfield Terrace (or Parkside Works), Edinburgh.