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==Notable people== *[[Jeff Beck]], guitarist, lived in Wadhurst between summer 1975 and his death on 10 January 2023. His large stone country house dates to 1591.<ref name="Hjort & Hinman">{{cite book|last=Hjort|first=Christopher, and Doug Hinman|title=Jeff's Book: A Chronology of Jeff Beck's Career, 1965β1980; From the Yardbirds to Jazz-Rock|year=2000|publisher=Rock 'n' Roll Research Press|location=Rumford, Rhode Island|page=165}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Savage |first1=Mark |title=Jeff Beck: British guitar legend dies aged 78 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64228780 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref> * [[William Bidlake]], (1861β1938), architect, moved to Wadhurst in 1924 and practised there until his death. *[[Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids]], PΔli language scholar and translator *[[Davina McCall]], television presenter, lived at Faircrouch House in Wadhurst until 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4074339.TV_star_buys_Sussex_home/ |title=Big Brother's Davina McCall moves to Wadhurst |access-date=25 January 2009 |archive-date=8 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008193138/http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4074339.TV_star_buys_Sussex_home/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Murdock |first=Jess Denham, Meghann |date=2019-01-04 |title=Davina McCall almost doubles her money with sale of East Sussex mansion |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/celebrity-homes/davina-mccall-sells-east-sussex-country-mansion-for-nearly-double-what-she-paid-for-it-a126861.html |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref> *[[Irfan Orga]] (1908β1970), exiled Turkish writer, lived at Spike Island, Wadhurst, 1961β1970. *[[Hans Rausing]] (1926β2019), billionaire inheritor of [[Tetra Pak]], had a house and deer park at Wadhurst. [[Wadhurst Park]] continues to be owned by the Rausing family. *[[Seymour Whinyates]], a British violinist, died in Wadhurst, 1979. *[[William Strutt (artist)|William Strutt]] (1862-1915), Born in a family of artists in Teignmouth, Devon in 1862. William moved to Australia where he married, later returning to England in 1862, settling in Wadhurst. William died in Wadhurst on 3 January 1915.
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