page_title: South Harting
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: South Harting / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: View of South Harting, Sussex, England, about 1905
context_page_description: South Harting is a village within Harting civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2146 road, 4 miles southeast of Petersfield in Hampshire.
  South Harting has two churches, one Anglican and one Congregational, plus a school and a pub.
  The National Trust property Uppark sits high on the South Downs, 1 mile south of the village on the B2146.
context_section_description: The painter Theodore Garman worked and painted in the village and is buried in the parish church graveyard. The Victorian writer Anthony Trollope spent the last years of his life in South Harting. He moved here in 1880 and lived at The Grange.  His pen, paperknife and letter scales are on display in the parish church. H.G Wells sometimes lived at Uppark as a young man; his mother was a lady's maid there. Bertrand Russell and his wife Dora founded the experimental Beacon Hill School at  Telegraph House, which was their residence in 1927. Admiral Sir Horace Law lived in South Harting and was a lay preacher at the parish church, where a room is named after him. Television presenter and producer Cliff Michelmore (1919-2016) was a local resident and was buried in the graveyard of the parish church in 2016.
caption: South Harting about 1905 with the White Hart pub on the right by the freestanding sign.
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