Editing Tolworth (section)

==Notable residents==
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[[File:Eric "slowhand" Clapton.jpg|thumb|[[Rock guitarist]] [[Eric Clapton]] went to [[Hollyfield School]].]]
*[[Muriel Box]] – Oscar winner and screenwriter, ''[[The Seventh Veil]]'' (1945),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0101504/ |title=Muriel Box: IMDb |publisher=IMDb |access-date=7 November 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> second wife of [[Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner|Lord Gardiner]]
*[[Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton]] – British disability rights campaigner and a [[life peer]] in the [[House of Lords]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/jul/11/lady-campbell-disability-peer|title=I'm bossy. I'm ambitious. I love ideas. And I love life: Dea Birkett meets Jane Campbell, a Life Peer with spinal muscular atrophy|last=Birkett|first=Dea|date=11 July 2009|publisher=Guardian News and Media|work=The Guardian|access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref>
*[[Eric Clapton]] – musician, used to live in Tolworth, attending [[Hollyfield School]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news/12916068.Considerably_richer_than_you__the_south_London_and_Surrey_links_of_Britain_s_millionaires/|title=Considerably richer than you: the south London and Surrey links of Britain's millionaires|website=Sutton Guardian|date=27 April 2015 |access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref>
*[[Elvis Costello]] – musician, lived locally in the 1970s<ref>Tolworth remembered: Mark Davison & Paul Adams</ref>
*[[James Follett]] – science fiction author and screenwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/James-Follett/e/B001KHT7RE |title=James Follett: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle |publisher=Amazon.com |date=23 March 2012 |access-date=7 November 2012}}</ref>
*[[Allan Ganley]] – jazz musician<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1583715/Allan-Ganley.html |title=Allan Ganley |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=3 April 2008 |access-date=7 November 2012 |location=London}}</ref>
*[[David Hemmings]] – actor and director, lived on the Sunray Estate in the 1950s while attending [[Glyn Grammar School]] in Ewell<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-end-of-innocence-481089.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-end-of-innocence-481089.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The end of innocence|date=4 June 2006|website=The Independent|access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref>
*[[Richard Jefferies]] – rural writer and journalist, moved to 2, Woodside Villas, (now No. 296), Ewell Road in 1877
*[[Debbie McGee]] – magician's assistant and radio presenter, attended Our Lady Immaculate School and [[Tolworth Girls' School|Tolworth Girls School]]
*[[C. H. Middleton]] ("Mr Middleton") – radio and TV gardening show presenter, lived at 17, Princes Avenue, Tolworth
*Austin Partner – First Class passenger on [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']], stockbroker,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/austin-partner.html |title=Mr Austin Partner – Titanic Victim |date=14 January 1999 |publisher=Encyclopedia-titanica.org |access-date=7 November 2012}}</ref> lived at 352, Ewell Road; buried at St Mary's Church, [[Long Ditton]]
*[[Bob and Alf Pearson]] – musical performing duo moved from [[Sunderland]] to Tolworth when their father was working on the Tolworth by-pass<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=My Brother & I|others=Bob & Alf Pearson |year=2001 |first=Chas |last=McDevitt |author-link=Chas McDevitt |type=booklet |publisher=Rollercoaster|id=RCCD6005 }}</ref>
*[[Cesar Picton]] – coal merchant, former slave, moved to Tolworth in 1807.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PICTON HOUSE, Non Civil Parish - 1080069 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1080069|access-date=20 July 2021|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Alan Wheatley]] – actor, played the [[Sheriff of Nottingham]] in the TV series ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' in the 1950s, was born in Tolworth. He was also the first person killed by a [[Dalek]] in an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in 1964.
*[[Leila Williams]] – TV presenter, one of the first on ''[[Blue Peter]]'', ran the Royal Oak Public House in Ewell Road<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/190117.stm |title=Here's one the BBC made 40 years earlier |work=BBC News|date=10 October 1998 |access-date=7 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/presenters/williams.shtml|title=BBC: I Love Blue Peter: Leila Williams presenter biography|publisher=BBC}}</ref>