Editing Lewes (section)

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of people from Lewes, East Sussex}}
Among the many notable former residents of Lewes is [[Thomas Paine]] (1737–1809), who was employed as an [[HM Customs and Excise|excise officer]] in the town for a time from 1768 to 1774 when he emigrated to the American colonies. The Paine association sits at the centre of a radical tradition that is represented today by writers working in the town.{{Citation needed|reason=who?|date=April 2009}}

The sciences and natural enquiry are represented by [[Gideon Mantell]] who is credited with the first discovery and identification of fossilised dinosaur ([[iguanodon]]) teeth. Lewes doctor [[Richard Russell (doctor)|Richard Russell]] popularised the resort of [[Brighton]]. [[Thomas Frewen (physician)|Thomas Frewen]], who practised in Lewes, was one of the earliest doctors to adopt the practice of [[inoculation]] against smallpox.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frewen, Thomas, 1704-1791 (physician) {{!}} ArchiveSearch |url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/agents/people/7827 |access-date=9 May 2024 |website=archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk}}</ref>

Lewes is the birthplace of 16th-century madrigalist [[Nicholas Yonge]]. In the 1960s it was home to [[Charlie Watts]] of the [[Rolling Stones]], as it is now to other musicians, including [[Herbie Flowers]], [[Arthur Brown (musician)|Arthur Brown]] and [[Tim Rice-Oxley]] from [[Keane (band)|Keane]].{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

[[Daisy Ashford]] lived from 1889 to 1896 at Southdown House, 44 St Anne's Crescent, where she wrote ''[[The Young Visiters]]''. [[Edward Perry Warren]], an eccentric American collector, lived in Lewes House. In 1919 [[Virginia Woolf]] briefly owned – but never lived in – the Round House, a windmill in Pipe Passage, before moving to her final home, [[Monk's House]] in [[Rodmell]]. Diarist [[John Evelyn]] spent his boyhood at Southover Grange.

[[John Maynard Smith]] (1920–2004), evolutionary biologist and population geneticist, died in Lewes.