Background
Dalziel was born in Borgue, Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of James Dalziel, a shoemaker.
Dalziel was born in Borgue, Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of James Dalziel, a shoemaker.
He was educated at Borgue Academy, Shrewsbury High School, and King"s College London.
He was also an outspoken advocate of home rule for Scotland, Ireland and Wales. After his retirement he joined the National Party of Scotland. In 1914 he became sole owner of Reynolds"s News, in which he had long had a financial interest.
He also bought the Pall Mall Gazette in 1917 and the same year was given the Freedom of the City of Kirkcaldy.
Lloyd George made him chairman and political director of the Daily Chronicle in 1918. He sold all his newspaper interests in 1922.
Dalziel was knighted in 1908, appointed to the Privy Council in 1912, created a Baronet, of Brooklands, Chobham, in the County of Surrey, in 1918 and raised to the peerage as Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy, of Marylebone in the County of London, in the 1921 Birthday Honours. A recently published book "Kirkcaldy"s Parliamentarians" by David Potter has an informative chapter on Dalziel"s political life.
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Originally a journalist, Dalziel became Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Kirkcaldy Burghs in 1892.
