Dalton McCarthy (October 10 1836 – May 11 1898), or D'Alton McCarthy, was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian.

McCarthy was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1878 Canadian election as a Conservative. An Irish born Protestant, McCarthy was stridently anti-Catholic and anti-French Canadian and broke with the Conservatives in the 1890s running and being re-elected as an Independent MP in the 1891 Canadian election. A founder of the Imperial Federation League , McCarthy was a supporter of the concept of Imperial federation which would have put Britain and the emerging dominions under a central Cabinet government responsible to an Imperial Parliament elected from throughout the Empire. McCarthy ran his own slate of McCarthyite candidates in the 1896 Canadian election but was the only one elected.

Following the 1896 election, McCarthy forged an alliance with Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals. He would likely have been appointed to cabinet in 1898, had he not died following a carriage accident. The "McCarthyite" party had for all intents

External links

• Biography at the Canadian Dictionary of Biography Online