Galton Blackiston: Biography, Facts and Career
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Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall in Morston, is Michelin starred and has 4 AA Rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney. Blackiston has never trained formally as a chef. After leaving school at 16 to play cricket, he was encouraged by his mother to set up a market stall selling homemade baked goods, "Galton's Goodies". His first job in a restaurant was at John Tovey's Miller Howe country hotel in Windermere, the Lake District. In 2013, Blackiston opened No 1 Cromer, a fish and chip shop in Cromer. In 2025, Blackiston and his wife Tracy sold Morston Hall to the hotelier Henry Elworthy, and no longer have any involvement with its running.
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- Full name: Galton Blackiston
- Born: 1962-08-13
- Known as: Chef
- Wikidata ID: Q5519376
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