Rick Dalton
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Stanley Richard 'Rick' Dalton (sometimes styled Rik Dalton) was a UK fan from Leeds active from 1940s into at least the 1970s. He was a member of the British Fantasy Library (BFL), the Science Fantasy Society (SFS), the Leeds Science Fiction Association of the 1950s, the NFFF and the BSFA. He attended Festivention in London and the NECON in 1951 and was a member of Loncon II in 1965.
Dalton seems to have encountered fandom through the BFL around 1947. He joined the SFS around 1949 and is listed as a member in Science Fantasy News #2 in March, and the NFFF at about the same time. He was a member of the Supermancon in 1954 but it's not known if he was present. He may have gafiated in the mid- to late-1950s as he was coded as an ex-active fan in Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955 and not listed at all for the remainder of the 1950s, reappearing in the 1960 edition.
He joined the BSFA in the early 1960s, appearing on a membership list in Vector #17, Autumn 1962. He later served on its council from its foundation in 1967 until 1976. Vector #47 (1967) lists the first members of the management council where his name is given as 'S. Rix Dalton'.
He was married to Mimi Dalton. She also attended Festivention although it's unclear if she was herself a fan per se. In an 'About our contributors' introduction in New Futurian #3 (Autumn 1954), J. Michael Rosenblum said of him that in the previous 10 years he had:
trained and practised as (a) a Bevin Boy in the mines[1], and (b) a solicitor. Like many other people in fandom his interests are prolific and well-spread – he is an ardent Esperantist active politically in the left-wing movement of Commonwealth, seems to be concerned with the mutual, non-profit Housing Society movement, Secretary of the International Club in Leeds, a specialist on avant-guarde [sic] films and so on... A member of the Leeds Science Fiction Association, he sometimes even shows up at meetings. Married, no family, book, record and cactus collections.
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- ↑ Bevin Boys were young British men conscripted to work in coal mines between December 1943 and March 1948.
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