Walter Scott Dalgleish (25 March 1834 – 15 February 1897) was a British historian and author. His publications include Great Speeches from Shakespeare's Plays: with Notes and a Life of Shakespeare (1891), Great Britain and Ireland, 1689–1887 (1895) and Mediaeval England, from the English Settlement to the Reformation (1896).

He contributed a section on Scotland's education to Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1901) by Francis Hindes Groome.^[1]

Dalgleish was born in 1834, son of John Dalgleish. He attended Royal High School and University in Edinburgh.^[2]

He worked as an editor with Edinburgh publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons.^[2]

Dalgleish became the Edinburgh correspondent for The Times in 1878.^[2]

In 1870, Dalgleish married Charlotte Hill, daughter of painter David Octavius Hill.^[3] He later married Helen Curror, who survived him upon his death in 1897. She remarried, to Worthington Evans, the following year.^[4]

Dalgleish died in 1897, aged 62. He had been living at 25 Mayfield Terrace (or Parkside Works), Edinburgh.^[2]

As author:^[5]

• Great Speeches from Shakespeare's Plays: with Notes and a Life of Shakespeare (1891)
• Great Britain and Ireland, 1689–1887 (1895)
• Mediaeval England, from the English Settlement to the Reformation (1896)

As contributor:

• Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Francis Hindes Groome, 1901)

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