Editing Crowborough (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Cloke's Corner - geograph.org.uk - 316397.jpg|thumb|The statue of [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] at Crowborough Cross]]
[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] (1859–1930), the author of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] novels and short stories, lived at Windlesham Manor in Crowborough for the last 23 years of his life.

He moved to Crowborough from [[Surrey]] in 1907 when he married his second wife, whose family lived next door at Little Windlesham.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url = http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=esusslib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&docId=IF501228792&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title = Conan Doyle 's town detects its fortune|last = McGrory|first = Daniel|date = 5 July 1997|work = The Times Digital Archive (subscription required)|access-date = 14 August 2014|page = 8|archive-date = 23 January 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210123083822/https://galeapps.gale.com/apps/auth?userGroupName=esusslib&origURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.gale.com%2Fps%2Fi.do%3Faction%3Dinterpret%26id%3DGALE%7CIF0501228792%26v%3D2.1%26u%3Desusslib%26it%3Dr%26p%3DTTDA%26sw%3Dw&prodId=TTDA|url-status = live}}</ref> Windlesham Manor is now a retirement home.<ref name=":1" />

Sir Arthur was a past Captain of Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in 1910 and Lady Conan Doyle was Ladies Captain in 1911.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Conan Doyle was initially buried vertically in the grounds of the manor, but later interred with his first wife at Minstead in the [[New Forest]].<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=esusslib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&docId=CS353968873&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title = Deaths|date = 9 July 1930|work = The Times Digital Archive (subscription required)|access-date = 14 August 2014|location = London, England|pages = 21|archive-date = 23 January 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210123083819/https://galeapps.gale.com/apps/auth?userGroupName=esusslib&origURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.gale.com%2Fps%2Fi.do%3Faction%3Dinterpret%26id%3DGALE%7CCS353968873%26v%3D2.1%26u%3Desusslib%26it%3Dr%26p%3DTTDA%26sw%3Dw&prodId=TTDA|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite ODNB|title = Doyle, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan (1859–1930)|last = Dudley Edwards|first = Owen| author-link = Owen Dudley Edwards | publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 2004}}</ref> His statue stands at Crowborough Cross, in the town centre.<ref name="Costello2012">{{cite book|author=Peter Costello|title=Conan Doyle, Detective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2HGhZki-8MC&pg=PT165|year=2012|publisher=Constable & Robinson Ltd|isbn=978-1-4721-0365-9|page=165}}</ref>

A Sherlock Holmes festival was held in Crowborough for several years running in the mid-1990s, reportedly attracting up to 25,000 visitors.<ref name=":1" />

Conan Doyle is commemorated in the town through street names such as Watson Way and Sherlock Shaw, and Conan Way.

Other notable Crowborough people include:

* [[Tom Baker]] (born 1934), actor, played the role of the fourth Doctor in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and also, interestingly, Sherlock Holmes in the 1982 British four-part television serial ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982 TV serial)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' based on the Conan Doyle story of the same name.
* [[Dirk Bogarde]] (1921–1999), actor and writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dirkbogarde.co.uk/icon/house-and-home/|title=Dirk Bogarde: House and Home|access-date=23 September 2017|archive-date=24 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924140652/http://dirkbogarde.co.uk/icon/house-and-home/|url-status=live}} Dirk Bogarde: House and Home</ref>
* [[Robert Henry Cain]], (1909–1974), only survivor of the [[Battle of Arnhem]] to receive the [[Victoria Cross]]
* [[James Dagwell]] (born 1974), British journalist, former [[BBC News]] presenter
* [[Tom Driberg]], Baron Bradwell (1905–1976), journalist, politician, member of the [[British Communist Party]] 
* [[E. E. Evans-Pritchard|Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard]], social anthropologist
* [[Dylan Hartley]], England rugby union player
* [[David Jason]] (born 1940), actor 
* [[Richard Jefferies]] (1848–1887), writer and naturalist<ref name="WildeTribute">{{cite book|last=Wilde|first=Arthur|title=Richard Jefferies - A Tribute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBVOmcfKucUC&pg=PA137|date=June 2010|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4455-0696-8|pages=137–139}}</ref>
* [[Jehst]] (William Shields) (born 1979), [[hip hop]] artist
* [[Rear admiral|Rear Admiral]] Philip Whitworth Burnett (10 October 1908 – 6 October 1996), a senior British military commander who served in the [[Royal Navy]] during [[World War II]]{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
* [[Kerry Katona]], actor and singer
* [[Ross Kemp]], actor, played Grant Mitchell in the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]''
* [[Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner]], former CEO of the [[Marks & Spencer]] department store chain
* [[Isaac Roberts]] (1829–1904), engineer, pioneer in astrophotography of nebulae<ref>{{cite book|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56168b/f371.image|title=Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased: Isaac Roberts. 1929-1904.|access-date=17 February 2013|archive-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017004613/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56168b/f371.image|url-status=live}} Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 75: 356, 362. 1904-1905.</ref>
* [[Piers Sellers]] (1955–2016), [[NASA]] astronaut
* [[Tony Stratton Smith]], manager of the rock bands [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] and [[Van der Graaf Generator]]
* [[Norman Thorne]] (c.1902 – 1925), chicken farmer convicted of the Crowborough "Chicken run murder"
* Sir [[Tim Waterstone]], founder of [[Waterstones]] bookshop chain
* [[Kim Woodburn]], television presenter
* [[Cate Blanchett]], [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning Australian actress
* [[Kevin Brownlow]], filmmaker and [[History of film|film historian]]
* [[Kirsty Barton]], [[Brighton & Hove Albion]] footballer
* Matt Weston, Olympic [[Skeleton (sport)|skeleton]] racer<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.thebbsa.co.uk/news-and-results/2020/team-gb-announce-olympic-skeleton-team/.|title= Team GB announce Olympic Skeleton team - BBSA}}</ref>
* [[Joanne Rout]], Paralympic swimmer
* [[Hugh Beaver]], founder of the ''Guinness Book of Records''
* [[Kim Philby]], Soviet spy<ref>{{cite book |last1=Macintyre |first1=Ben |title=A Spy Among Friends |date=2015 |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |isbn=978-1-4088-5178-4 |page=173}}</ref>