Meeting the Criteria for "A Son of a Savage," Millican Dalton

Millican Dalton . . . • born April 20th 1867 in Nenthead in the Pennines. • named Millican after his mother's maiden name. • quaker. • attended the Friends School in Wigton. • father died when he was aged 7. • family moved south and lived at Walnut Cottage, Stony Path, Essex. • worked in London as an insurance clerk. • keen cyclist and camper. • left London aged 30. • built a forest hut at Marlow Bottom, Buckinghamshire where he lived during the winter months. • worked as secretary to the Holiday Fellowship in Newlands for a couple of years. • camped at High Lodore. • moved to a cave under Castle Crag in the 1920's. • named his cave "The Cave Hotel". • mountain guide. • styled himself 'Professor of Adventure'. • offered 'Mountain rapid Shooting, Rafting, Hair-breadth Escapes.' • was always addressed as 'The Skipper '. • made his own clothes. • vegetarian. • grew potatoes on the terrace outside his cave. • baked his own bread. • ate hazelnuts picked from the woods around his cave. • collected ample firewood from the surrounding countryside. • climbed trees in winter to keep fit for climbing. • bachelor. • a popular guide among the lady climbers. • invented trousers that could convert into shorts. • took the Daily Herald. • pacifist. • often wrote to Churchill demanding he stop the war. • admired George Bernard Shaw. • had strong views on almost everything. • teetotaller. • smoked Woodbine cigarettes. • drank large ammounts of coffee. • washed infrequently. • was more likeable when he was standing down wind. • built a raft named Rogue Herries. • lit a fire on top of Napes Needle to mark his 50th accent and made a pot of coffee. • during the cold winter of 1947 his hut burned down; undaunted he moved into a tent. • contracted pneumonia. • spent his last few days in a hospital ward. • died on the 5th February 1947 in Amersham aged 79 years.