Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, PC (16 August 1887 – 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party economist and politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. [1]

By this time, Dalton was one of the leading figures in the Labour Party. He was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1948. Dalton did not stand at the 1959 election and he was given a life peerage in 1960.

Mar 7, 2021 · Hugh Dalton was one of the dominant figures in the history of the Labour party and Chancellor of the Exchequer, from July 1945 to November 1947, at a vital time. According to Ben Pimlott, he was the first truly socialist Chancellor, imposing redistributive taxation …

Hugh Dalton was one of the dominant figures in the history of the Labour party and Chancellor the Exchequer, from July 1945 to November 1947, at a vital time. According to Ben Pimlott, he was the first truly socialist Chancellor, imposing redistributive taxation 'with a song in his heart'.

British public finance economist and prominent Labour politician. Educated at Eton and then King's College, Cambridge, where he studied economics under the young John Maynard Keynes. But Dalton found the appeal of socialism more entrancing and joined the Fabian Society at Cambridge in 1907.

Hugh Dalton, the son of the chaplain to Queen Victoria, was born in Neath, in 1887. During his education at Eton he became friends with Rupert Brooke. While at King's College, Cambridge, he became a socialist and joined the Fabian Society.

Jul 11, 2019 · Cassell Reader in Economics from 1920 to 1935, when he resigned in order to devote himself to politics, Dalton published important work on public finance, the distribution of income and wealth and the economics of socialism.

Dalton entered Parliament in 1924 as MP for Peckham, later moving to Bishop Auckland. In 1929, he and his wife were the first married couple simultaneously to sit in the House of Commons. After junior office in the second Labour government (1929–31) he lost his seat in …

Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, known as Hugh Dalton, was a British economist and politician. He was a member of the Labour Party and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1947.

Feb 20, 2019 · Hugh Dalton was an LSE alumnus and former lecturer, most remembered for his post-World War II position in the British Labour Party as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dalton’s life landmarks also include fighting in Italy during the First World War, serving in Churchill’s wartime coalition cabinet and environmental activism.