Editing Ashtead (section)

==Notable residents==
* [[Edward Aston (died 1568)|Edward Aston]] (d. 1568) was [[High Sheriff of Staffordshire|Sheriff of Staffordshire]] and owned the Manor of Ashtead from 1526 to 1543<ref name=Lever_1986>{{cite journal |last1= Lever |first1= R.A |year= 1986|title= Notes on some Ashtead personalities |url= https://leatherheadhistoryarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/VOL_4_NO_10_1986.pdf |journal= Proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society |volume= 4 |issue= 10 |pages= 284–289 |access-date= 22 May 2021 }}</ref>
* [[Edward Darcy]] (d. 1612) was a politician and courtier and owned the Manor of Ashtead from 1589 until his death<ref name=Lever_1986/>
* [[Samuel Pepys]] (1633&ndash;1703) visited Ashtead in the 17th century and spent some time living there as a boy<ref name=Pepys_Epsom/>
* [[Thomas Tyers]] (1726&ndash;1787) author<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Lowther |first1= A.W.G. |year= 1960|title= Ashtead and its history XII |url= https://leatherheadhistoryarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/VOL_2_NO_4_1960.pdf |journal= Proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society |volume= 2 |issue= 4 |pages= 116–126 |access-date= 15 May 2021 }}</ref>
* [[Thomas Byam Martin]] (1773&ndash;1854) [[Royal Navy]] officer and politician<ref>{{Cite ODNB |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/18214 |title=Martin, Sir Thomas Byam|year=2004| last=Laughton |first=J.K. |editor1-first = Andrew |editor1-last= Lambert}}</ref>
* [[Sara Jeannette Duncan]] (1861&ndash;1922) Canadian author and journalist, who wrote under the pen name Mrs Everard Cotes<ref>{{cite web |title=Duncan, Sara, Jeannette (Cotes) |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/duncan_sara_jeannette_15E.html |first=Misao |last=Dean |work=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |volume=15 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |year=2005 |access-date=6 August 2014 |archive-date=4 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804140608/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/duncan_sara_jeannette_15E.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Robert Kahn (composer)|Robert Kahn]] (1865&ndash;1951) composer, lived in Ashtead from 1938 until his death<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/stories/discoveringthemusicofrobertkahn/ |title= Discovering the Music of Robert Kahn |last= Meyn |first= Norbert |year= 2019 |publisher= Royal College of Music |location= London |access-date= 10 September 2021 |archive-date= 14 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211014214452/https://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/stories/discoveringthemusicofrobertkahn/ |url-status= live }}</ref>
* [[Robert Davis (inventor)|Robert Davis]] (1870&ndash;1965) inventor of the [[Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus|Submerged Escape Apparatus]] used by [[submarine]] crews in the Second World War.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |date= 31 March 1965 |title= Sir Robert Davis Obituary |issue= 56284 |page= 16}}</ref>
* [[Elsie Knocker]] later Baroness de T'Serclaes, MM, OStJ  (1884&ndash;1978) nurse and ambulance driver on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] during [[World War I]]<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |date= 6 May 1978 |title= Baroness de T'Serclaes Obituary |issue= 60294 |page= 16}}</ref>
* [[Albert Marshall (veteran)|Albert Marshall]] (1897&ndash;2005) the last surviving British [[cavalryman]] to have fought on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] during [[World War I]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |date= 6 June 2005 |title= Albert Marshall Obituary |issue= 68406 |page= 50}}</ref>
* [[Beverley Nichols]] (1898&ndash;1957) writer and composer<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/miscellany/potted-history-51.pdf |title= Beverley Nichols - Merry Hall |first= Goff |last= Powell |date= May 2013 |publisher= Leatherhead & District Local History Society |access-date= 12 May 2021 |archive-date= 13 May 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210513153247/https://www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/miscellany/potted-history-51.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>
* [[A. P. Herbert]] (1890&ndash;1971) writer and politician<ref>{{Cite ODNB |doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/31222 |year=2004 |last1=Pound |first1=Reginald |editor1-first = Katherine |editor1-last=Mullin |title=Herbert, Sir Alan Patrick|freearticle=y}}</ref>
* [[Kathleen Riddick]] (1907&ndash;1973) pioneering conductor and founder of the Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra<ref name=Stuttard_1995_p197>{{harvnb|Stuttard|1995|p=197}}</ref>
* [[Pete Brown]] (1940&ndash;2023) performance poet, lyricist and singer, best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce<ref name="TOD">{{harvnb|Joynson|2006|pp=126–127}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Welch |first= Chris |date= 1 June 2023 |title= Pete Brown obituary |work= The Guardian |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/01/pete-brown-obituary |access-date= 20 August 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Evan Davis]] (b. 1962) journalist and television presenter, grew up in Ashtead.<ref>{{cite web |access-date = 27 June 2011 |publisher = [[BBC]] |title = Evan Davis to become a permanent presenter on Today|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/23/evan.shtml |archive-date = 27 January 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090127041426/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/23/evan.shtml |url-status = live }}</ref>