Bayard Brown

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McEvers Bayard Brown was the American owner of the steam yacht Valfreyia. The millionaire lived for many years on board his yacht in the Forrest's dry dock in the Colne River at Brightlingsea, England. He was known as "the millionaire hermit of Essex County".

He got round the demand for dock rates by getting up steam every day and telling the council he was leaving on the next tide, but he never actually left the dock until his death in 1926.

Legend has it that Brown lost interest in the United States after a romance left him heart-broken.

His body was flown back to the USA and his yacht Valfreya was sold to the Maharajah Jam Sahib of Nawangar and renamed the Star of Asia.

Bayard Brown was a member of the Jekyll Island Club from 1886 to1926 although he never occupied the "Brown Cottage' that he built on the island.

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