Career
Dalton was of Irish parentage, and passed the early years of his life at Coventry. He received his education at Sedgley Park School, and transferred in 1830 to Street Mary"s College, Oscott, where he was ordained priest. From 1858 he was for a time at Street Alban"s College, Valladolid.
After his return from Spain he settled at Saint John"s Maddermarket, Norwich, where he spent the remainder of his days, with the exception of a brief interval in 1866, when Archbishop Henry Manning sent him to Spain to collect subscriptions towards the erection in London of a cathedral in memory of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.
He died on 15 February 1874.
