Editing Midhurst (section)

== Notable people ==
*[[Richard Cobden]], politician and leading figure of the [[Anti-Corn Law League]] was born nearby at [[Heyshott]] in 1804, attended school in Midhurst, and spent much of his later life at his family home in Heyshott, Dunford farmhouse.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morley |first1=John |title=The Life of Richard Cobden |date=1905 |publisher=T. Fisher Unwin |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924014655256/page/n30 1]-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924014655256}}</ref>
*[[Charles James Fox]] was Member of Parliament for Midhurst between 1768 and 1774.<ref>Mitchell, Leslie (1992). Charles James Fox.</ref>
*[[Boris Karloff]], British horror actor of screen and stage died in King Edward VII Hospital from pneumonia at the age of 81 in 1969.<ref name=britannica>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/312429/Boris-Karloff Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501054743/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/312429/Boris-Karloff |date=1 May 2015 }} ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''. Retrieved 30 June 2013.</ref>
*[[Henry VIII]] visited Midhurst in 1538 and 1545, his son [[Edward VI]] came in 1554 and his daughter [[Elizabeth I]] in 1591.<ref name=Timeline/>
*[[Vic Mitchell]] (1934-2021), author and publisher, lived in Midhurst from 1964 until his death.<ref name=RM0618p33-37>{{cite magazine |title=617 publications so far... |first=Howard |last=Johnston |magazine=The Railway Magazine |date=June 2018 |publisher=Mortons Media Ltd |location=Horncastle |issn=0033-8923 }}</ref> 
*[[Anya Seton]] stayed at the Spread Eagle Hotel researching her novel ''[[Green Darkness]]'', set in Tudor England, and in which Cowdray House, St. Ann's Hill and the Spread Eagle feature prominently.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Green Darkness]] |publisher=[[Hodder & Stoughton]] |year=1972 |last=Seton | first=Anya |author-link=Anya Seton |isbn=0-340-15979-0}}</ref>
*[[Hugh Pollard (intelligence officer)|Hugh Pollard]], adventurer, firearms expert and Secret Agent, retired to Midhurst after WW2.<ref>[https://frontiersmenhistorian.info/2016/06/01/tasting-adventure-and-revolution/ frontiersmenhistorian.info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022121826/https://frontiersmenhistorian.info/2016/06/01/tasting-adventure-and-revolution/ |date=22 October 2020 }} Retriever 17 November 2020</ref>
*[[H.G Wells|H.G. Wells]], the essayist and novelist, who was a pupil and then a pupil teacher at Midhurst Grammar School in 1882 and 1883.<ref>Smith, David C. (1986) H. G. Wells: Desperately mortal. A biography. Yale University Press, New Haven and London {{ISBN|0-300-03672-8}}</ref><ref>Wells, Geoffrey H. (1925). The Works of H. G. Wells. London: Routledge. p. xvi. {{ISBN|0-86012-096-1}}. OCLC 458934085</ref>  Midhurst features as "Wimblehurst" in several of Well's novels, such as ''[[Tono-Bungay]]''.
*[[Alec Guinness]] star of stage and screen, died in Edward VII's Hospital here in 2000.