John Chilton MacColl and Peggy Seeger in the 1950s for the BBC. He later worked with Wally Fawkes, also known as the cartoonist 'Trog', and in January 1974 formed John Chilton's Feetwarmers, who began accompanying British jazz singer and writer George Melly. Together they made records and toured the world for nearly 30 years including trips to America, Australia, China and New Zealand. In 1983 and 1984 they had their own BBC television series called "Good Time George". They appeared on countless other TV shows, including "Parkinson", "The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club", "Aspel", "This is Your Life" and "Pebble Mill at
William Chilton (printer) twelve years the articles on Evolution by Herbert Spencer in the "Leader", when "regular gradation" began to receive the name of evolution. Chilton was an early advocate of evolution. His writings on "The Theory of Regular Gradation" that were published in "The Oracle of Reason", popularised evolution many years before Charles Darwin. Chilton was a materialist who viewed matter as eternal and inherently possessing all properties to produce life. He rejected any distinction between living and non-living matter and considered all matter to be alive. Chilton was influenced by the evolutionary ideas of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. He embraced Lamarckism and the