Family and Education
b. 1581, 1st s. of Sir John Dalston† of Dalston Hall and his 2nd w. Frances, da. and coh. of Thomas Warcop† of Smardale, Westmld.Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. n.s. x. 217-8. educ. Queens’, Camb. c.1596; at Court to 1603.Al. Cant.; Hutchinson, Cumb. ii. 454. m. 11 Feb. 1605, Catherine (bur. 22 July 1614), da. of John Tamworth of Halsted, Leics. and coh. to her bro. Colby, 1s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Dalston Par. Regs. ed. J. Wilson, i. 109, 162; Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. n.s. x. 218-20. Kntd. 26 June 1607;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 142. suc. fa. 1633.C142/507/162. bur. 28 Sept. 1657 28 Sept. 1657.Hutchinson, Cumb. ii. 454.
Offices Held

Capt. of Carlisle Castle, Cumb. 1608-at least 1643;CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 406; Lansd. 165, f. 49; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), D/Mus/Corr/4/16. j.p. Cumb. and Westmld. 1615 – 44, custos. rot. Cumb. 1641–44;C231/4, ff. 4, 6; 231/5, p. 427. commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1615 – 24, 1632 – 41, Cumb. 1630;Naworth Household Bks. ed. G. Ornsby (Surtees Soc. lxviii), 465; C181/2, ff. 237, 249, 308, 310v; 181/3, ff. 83, 106v; 181/4, ff. 25, 108, 197v; 181/5, ff. 7v, 203v. sheriff, Cumb. 1618–19;List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 28. commr. border malefactors 1618, 1619, 1635,T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, pp. 38, 97; CSP Dom. 1635, p. 510. wool prices, Cumb. 1619,APC, 1617–19, p. 470. subsidy, Cumb. 1621, Westmld. 1622, Cumb. and Westmld. 1624;SP14/123/3; C212/22/21, 23. freeman, Carlisle 1623, alderman by 1634;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), Ca/2/27; Mun. Recs. Carlisle ed. R.S. Ferguson (Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. extra ser. iv), 13. dep. lt. Cumb. and Westmld. by 1627-c.1644;SP16/73/41. commr. Forced Loan, Cumb. 1627;Rymer, vii. pt. 2, p. 144. member, High Commission, York prov. 1628;SP16/123/46. commr. piracy, Cumb. 1631,C181/4, f. 81. assessment 1641–3,SR, v. 60, 82, 149; A. and O. i. 90. array 1642,Northants. RO, FH133. levying money 1643.A. and O. i. 147.

Main residence: Dalston Hall, Cumb.
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Commons 1604-1629
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DALSTON, Sir George (1581-1657)

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Oxford 1644
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