Editing Great Bookham (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Jane Austen]], whose godfather and cousin Rev. Samuel Cooke was vicar of Great Bookham (1769-1820),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Le Faye|first1=Deirdre|title=Jane Austen's Letters|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|page=508|edition=4th}}</ref> is said to have spent time in Bookham whilst writing several of her novels in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its location is consistent with the geographical details in ''[[Emma (novel)|Emma]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://home.clara.net/heureka/surrey-hants/surrey-writers.htm |title=Surrey writers |access-date=13 June 2008 |archive-date=9 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309140044/http://home.clara.net/heureka/surrey-hants/surrey-writers.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Lilian Elkington]], composer and pianist, lived at Ridge House, 11 Groveside, from 1948 to 1954.<ref>'Missing Tone Poem is to be Performed', ''Leatherhead Advertiser'' 1 September 1988, p. 5</ref>
*[[Louis Essen]], pioneer of the [[atomic clock]], died in Great Bookham.<ref>{{cite news |last= Steele |first= J. McA. |date= 2 September 1997 |title= Obituary: Louis Essen |work= The Independent |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-louis-essen-1237209.html |access-date= 30 March 2023 }}</ref>
*[[Conor Gallagher]], football player, grew up in Great Bookham.<ref>{{cite news |last=Madeley |first=Steve |date=30 November 2020 |title=Meet the Gallaghers: 'Even now we still have a play fight and beat Conor up' |url=https://theathletic.com/2224929/2020/11/29/meet-the-gallaghers-west-brom/ |website=The Athletic |access-date= 13 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[C. S. Lewis]], author, studied privately with [[William T. Kirkpatrick]] in Great Bookham between September 1914 and April 1917.<ref>{{cite web |last= Duggan |first= Mick |date= 18 December 2018 |title= Discover the hidden side of Surrey |publisher= Essential Surrey & SW London |url= https://www.essentialsurrey.co.uk/surrey-sw-london-things-to-do/narnia-trail-banstead-woods/ |access-date= 30 March 2023 }}</ref>
*[[Roger Waters]], [[Pink Floyd]] bass player and singer, was born in Great Bookham in 1943.<ref>{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Dave|author-link=Dave Thompson (author)|title=Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWNYAQAAQBAJ |year=2013|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-1-61713-564-4 |page= 7}}</ref>