Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 11 June 1929 – 3 September 1931
Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by
Anthony Eden
Succeeded by
James Stanhope
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 28 January 1960 – 13 February 1962 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland
In office 14 November 1935 – 18 September 1959
Preceded by
Aaron Curry
Succeeded by
James Boyden
In office 30 May 1929 – 7 October 1931
Preceded by
Ruth Dalton
Succeeded by
Aaron Curry
Member of Parliament for Peckham
In office 29 October 1924 – 10 May 1929
Preceded by
Collingwood Hughes
Succeeded by
John Beckett
Personal details
Born
(1887-08-26)26 August 1887 Neath, Wales
Died
13 February 1962(1962-02-13) (aged 74)
Political party
Labour
Alma mater
King's College, Cambridge, London School of Economics
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] He shaped Labour Party foreign policy in the 1930s, opposing pacifism; promoting rearmament against the German threat; and strongly opposed the appeasement policy of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938. Dalton served in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition cabinet; after the Dunkirk evacuation he was Minister of Economic Warfare, and established Special Operations Executive. As Chancellor, he pushed his policy of cheap money too hard, and mishandled the sterling crisis of 1947. His political position was already in jeopardy in 1947 when he, seemingly inadvertently, revealed a sentence of the budget to a reporter minutes before delivering his budget speech. Prime Minister Clement Attlee accepted his resignation; Dalton later returned to the cabinet in relatively minor positions.
His biographer Ben Pimlott characterised Dalton as peevish, irascible, given to poor judgment and lacking administrative talent.[2] Pimlott also recognised that Dalton was a genuine radical and an inspired politician; a man, to quote his old friend and critic John Freeman, "of feeling, humanity, and unshakeable loyalty to people which matched his talent."[3]
^Kaderbhai, Nick (2024). "Capitalism, Sovereignty, and Planning in Hugh Dalton's Interwar International Thought". The International History Review. doi:10.1080/07075332.2023.2265375. ISSN 0707-5332.
^Loades, David ed. (2003) The Reader's Guide to British History vol. 1, p. 329. ISBN 9781579584269
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...
November 1940 Gubbins became acting Brigadier and, at the request of HughDalton, the Minister of Economic Warfare, was seconded to the Special Operations...
ability to undertake operations, no matter the political consequences. HughDalton, the government minister in charge of SOE, informed the British Prime...
have relevance to the forthcoming budget. Chancellor of the Exchequer HughDalton resigned after he made "an off-the-cuff remark to a journalist, telling...
secret until the chancellor reveals it in his speech to Parliament. HughDalton, on his way to giving the budget speech in 1947, inadvertently blurted...
arranged the formation of a single sabotage organisation. On 16 July, HughDalton, the Minister of Economic Warfare, was appointed to take political responsibility...
(e.g. HughDalton, of whom he became a protégé, Douglas Jay and Evan Durbin) and City people such as the economist Nicholas Davenport. Dalton and Gaitskell...
Neale Dalton, later to enter politics and become Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer HughDalton, was born at home in Neath, Glamorgan, August 1887. Hugh Evan-Thomas...
John Dalton FRS (/ˈdɔːltən/; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He introduced the atomic theory...
anything to do with it. With Chetwynd being particularly close to HughDalton, when Dalton returned to government in May 1948 he chose Chetwynd as his Parliamentary...
1945–51. Attlee, Morrison, Ernest Bevin, Stafford Cripps, and initially HughDalton formed the "Big Five" who dominated those governments. Morrison oversaw...
Autobiography (London, Odhams, 1960), p. 164 HughDalton, Ben Pimlott, The Political Diary of HughDalton, 1918–40, 1945–60 (London School of Economics...
thought that the Germans were merely walking into "their own backyard". HughDalton, a Labour Party MP who usually advocated stiff resistance to Germany...
socialist and agnostic". He was also influenced by the works of Sidney Webb, HughDalton, John Maynard Keynes and other economists and socialists whose Fabian...
by Harold Laski, Edwin Cannan and HughDalton. He graduated B.Sc. (Econ) in 1923 with first class honours. Dalton's biographer Ben Pimlott wrote that...
Bernard HughDalton (1891 – 9 November 1929) was an Australian pioneer rugby league player In the Australian competition – the New South Wales Rugby League...
Parliament (MP). A graduate of the London School of Economics, she married HughDalton, later a Labour Party Member of Parliament, in 1914; they had one child...
Minister of Food John Strachey). The crisis led to an unsuccessful plot by HughDalton to replace Attlee as Prime Minister with Ernest Bevin. Later that year...
Ministry of Economic Warfare. Ronald Cross (3 September 1939 – 15 May 1940) HughDalton (15 May 1940 – 22 February 1942) Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne...
Vol. II (9th ed.). London: Cassell & Co. Ltd. Dalton, Hugh (1986). The Second World War Diary of HughDalton 1940–45. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 62. ISBN 978-02-24020-65-7...
BBC caused that news to be largely suppressed. The Labour spokesman HughDalton publicly suggested that the piece of paper that Chamberlain was waving...
French governments on 19 October 1954. This view was shared by Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell and Liberal leader Jo Grimond. In 1956 the Suez Canal was of vital...
appointed to the new post of Minister for Economic Affairs. Six weeks later HughDalton resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Cripps succeeded him, with...
economic historian R. H. Tawney and several economists G. D. H. Cole, HughDalton, Maynard Keynes, A. C. Pigou, Colin Clark and Lionel Robbins. Maddison...
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