Chris McCooey is a freelance journalist and author. He was born in Tunbridge Wells in 1949 and has contributed travel and gardening articles to The Times

The Times

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, The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph

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, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express. He has written a number of local history books and gives talks to local societies in Kent and Sussex. He was educated at Skinners School and University College, Oxford (where he was a contemporary of Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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). He is the father of actor, Matt McCooey.

Published books

McCooey's published books include:

• Southborough and High Brooms (Archive Photographs)
• Sussex Heroes: Brave, Resourceful and True
• Voices of Southborough and High Brooms
• Kent Scandals: Sensational, Salacious And Sad
• Leisure Guide to Scotland's Countryside ISBN 978-0859360272

He is also the editor of Despatches from the Home Front: War Diaries of Joan Strange 1939-1945, ISBN 978-1854240491.