DALTON, RICHARD

Architectural draughtsman and scholar, for biography of whom see Oxford DNB. This account states that he was born in Cumberland, but according to Mulvany's Life of James Gandon(1846), he was a native of Ireland and studied drawing at Robert West's academy.(1) He travelled with the Earl of Charlemont in the eastern Mediterranean in 1749.(2)

(1) pp.210-211.
(2) For an account of these travels, see Maurice Craig, The Volunteer Earl (1953).