Editing Mortlake (section)

===Historical figures===
Apart from Archbishops of Canterbury, Mortlake's most famous former resident is [[John Dee (mathematician)|John Dee]] (1527–1608/09), [[mathematician]], [[astronomer]], [[astrologer]], [[alchemist]] and adviser to Queen [[Elizabeth I]]. He lived at Mortlake from 1565 to 1595 except for the six years between 1583 and 1589 when he was travelling in Europe. His house no longer exists but it became the [[Mortlake Tapestry Works]] and at the end of the 18th century was a girls' school.<ref name="Dee Society">{{cite web | url=http://johndeemortlakesoc.org/history-dr-john-dee/dr-dees-house-mortlake/| title=Dee's House | publisher=John Dee of Mortlake Society | access-date=17 December 2015}}</ref>

[[Christopher Packe (politician)|Sir Christopher Packe]] (1593?–1682), [[Lord Mayor of London]], lived in Mortlake in about 1655–60.<ref name="People M-S">{{cite web | url=http://www.barnes-history.org.uk/celMS.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726173202/http://www.barnes-history.org.uk/celMS.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-26 |url-status=live | title=People of Mortlake, Barnes and East Sheen: M&nbsp;– S | publisher=[[Barnes and Mortlake History Society]] | access-date=13 October 2012}}</ref>

[[John Partridge (astrologer)]] (1644–c.1714) was born at East Sheen and apprenticed to a local shoemaker. He died in Mortlake and is buried there.<ref name="People M-S"/>

[[Edward Colston]], the English merchant, [[philanthropy|philanthropist]] and [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]] Member of Parliament who was involved in the [[Atlantic slave trade]], lived at (old) Cromwell House (demolished 1857) from about 1689 until his death in 1721.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Deaton|first=Helen|title=The Story of Cromwell House at Mortlake|publisher=[[Barnes and Mortlake History Society]]|date = 2009|isbn=978-0954203849}}</ref> 

The cemetery of [[St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake]] contains the [[Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton|tomb]] of the Victorian explorer and orientalist [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Burton]] (1821–1890).<ref name="Listed">{{National Heritage List for England |num=1065392  |desc=Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton, Churchyard of St Mary Magdalen|date = 30 October 1973|access-date=12 August 2023}}</ref> 

Former British Prime Minister [[Henry Addington]] (1757–1844) who, as Lord Sidmouth, was Ranger of [[Richmond Park]], and after whom the park's Sidmouth Plantation is named, is buried at [[St Mary the Virgin Mortlake]].<ref name="Listed"/><ref name="Empire">{{cite web | url=http://www.napoleon-empire.com/personalities/addington.php | title=Henry Addington (1757–1844) First Viscount Sidmouth | publisher=Napoleon & Empire | access-date=18 October 2012}}</ref>

[[Ada Lovelace]] (1815–1852), English mathematician and writer, lived in Mortlake when she was 15 years old.<ref>{{cite book|last=Woolley|first=Benjamin|date=2015|title=Ada Lovelace: Bride of Science|publisher=Pan Macmillan |page=116|isbn=978-1-4472-7254-0}}</ref>