Hugh Dalton (1887-1962: ODNB), childhood in Windsor Castle, as son of a canon of Windsor; King's Coll., Cambridge; PhD in economics, LSE; military service, 1914-18; reader in commerce, LSE, 1920-5, and in economics, Univ. of London, 1925-36; MP (Lab) Camberwell, 1924-29, Bishop Auckland, 1929-31, 1935-59; parliamentary under-secretary, foreign office, 1929-31; minister of economic warfare, 1940-2; president, board of trade, 1942-45; chancellor of the exchequer, 1945-7; other cabinet posts, 1947-51; baron, 1960; a noted diarist. See also Volume 54, 65, 66.

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