George Sturt (1863-1927), who also wrote under the pseudonym George Bourne, was an English writer on rural crafts and affairs. He was born and grew up in Farnham, Surrey. Sturt was a grammar school teacher until 1894 when his father died, after which he took over and ran the family wheelwright shop in Farnham, where he continued to live for the rest of his life. He wrote numerous books and articles under the name George Bourne, including a novel. His works include: The Bettesworth Book (1901), Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer (1907), The Ascending Effort (1910), Change in the Village (1912), Lucy Bettesworth (1913), William Smith, Potter and Farmer (1920), A Farmer's Life (1922), The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) and A Small Boy in the Sixties (1927).