Editing Crewkerne (section)

==Notable residents==
[[Thomas Coryat]] a traveller and writer of the late [[Elizabethan]] and early [[Literature in English#Jacobean literature|Jacobean]] age was born in Crewkerne around 1577.<ref name="curio"/> Mathematician [[John Caswell]] was also born here. A later traveller Colonel [[Joshua Fry]] was born in the town in 1699 before becoming a surveyor, adventurer, mapmaker, soldier, and member of the [[House of Burgesses]], the legislature of the [[colony of Virginia]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1915310|last=Stannard|first=W.G.|title=Virginians at Oxford |journal=The William and Mary Quarterly|year=1894|volume=2|issue=3|pages=149–153 |jstor=1915310}}</ref> Another Englishman from Crewkerne who emigrated to the American Colonies was [[William Phelps (colonist)|William Phelps]] who was born around 1599 and became one of the founders of both [[Dorchester, Massachusetts]] and [[Windsor, Connecticut]], foreman of the first [[grand jury]] in New England, served most of his life in early colonial government, and played a key role in establishing the first [[Democracy|democratic]] town government in the American colonies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phelpsfamilyhistory.com/history/america/windsor-first-generation-new-england.asp|title=First generation of Phelps in Windsor, Connecticut|publisher=Phelps Family History|access-date=25 August 2010|archive-date=10 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210225251/http://www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com/history/america/windsor-first-generation-new-england.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Ralph Reader]] an actor, [[theatrical producer]] and [[songwriter]], best known for staging the original [[Gang Show]], a [[Variety show]] for members of the [[Scouting]] Movement, was born in Crewkerne in 1903.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ralph Reader CBE|url=http://www.hinckleygangshow.co.uk/#/ralph-reader/4538508499|publisher=Hinkley Gang Show|access-date=23 May 2010}}</ref> The cricketer [[Michael Barnwell]] was born in the town in 1943.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mike Barnwell|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/9006.html|publisher=CricInfo|access-date=13 June 2010}}</ref>