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British adventurer

Millican Dalton (20 April 1867 – 5 February 1947) was a British self-styled "Professor of Adventure".

Biography

Born on 20 April 1867 at Nenthead, Alston, Cumberland, Dalton spent his early life in the northwest of England before his family moved to Essex.

He became an insurance clerk in London, living in Loughton where he owned a cottage, and slept under canvas in the garden, but at the age of 36, he gave up this existence and went to live in a rough wooden shack, and in a cave (which he dubbed "The Cave Hotel") in Borrowdale, from where he offered camping and adventure holidays, as reported in the BBC's Countryfile programme broadcast on 20 September 2015.

He latterly spent his summers in the cave, moving south to the wooden shed in Buckinghamshire during the colder months.

Millican Dalton: A Search for Romance & Freedom - Mountainmere

Loughton Town Council resolved in 2021^[1] to erect a blue plaque to him on the house he lived in the garden of, Walnut Cottage, Stony Path.

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