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Taylor, Rachel; daughter of Thomas Baker, Oxford, City Solicitor for Oxford, and Ann, dau. of John Skingley, Oxford ; sister of Mrs.Ann Playford, Dame (qv) ; Dame of a boarding house in Dean’s Yard by c.1736 ; first of thirteen recorded boarders adm. Jan 1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Jun 1740 (sic) ; m. Rev.Edward Taylor (d.1699), Rector of Finningley, Notts. ; buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey 2 Jun 1740, aged 65. Mother of Mrs.Anne Ludford, Dame (qv).

Stikeman, ---; Dame of 1 Little Dean’s Yard (succeeding Miss Best) 1822-32 (house still known as Stikeman’s in May 1832), when she was succeeded by John Benthall (qv, also Assistant Master) as House Master ; first boarder admitted to boarding house under her name 23 Sep 1822, last boarder admitted 31 Jan 1832 ; evidently wife of Thomas Stikeman, listed in Little Dean’s Yard, Boyle’s Court Guide 1823-9. [presumably = Lucinda Willett, daughter of Rev.Waring Willett, Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey, b.c.1790, who m. 7 Mar 1812 Thomas James Stikeman (born c.1777), son of Thomas Stikeman, Greenwich, Kent, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Duckworth ; her husband was a clerk in the War Office (occurs 1810-1820), afterwards of Point Fortune, Quebec, Canada, where he purchased land 22 Oct 1832, suggesting emigration to Canada by them in that year ; d. at home of son Alfred Willett Stikeman (qv), 4 Stockwell Place, Clapham Road, Surrey 5 Nov 1863 (adm. PCC 24 Nov 1863, effects under £200)].

Stelfox, Rosamund; b. c.1773 ; succeeded Mrs.Packharness as Dame of the Centre House on the Terrace (listed in Dean’s Yard in Boyle’s Court Guide 1821-9) ; first boarder admitted to house in her name 17 Sep 1819, last boarder admitted 4 Jun 1834 ; house closed in 1834 and boys distributed between Scott’s and Benthall’s (Town Boy Ledger 1834) ; “a charming woman, of more than the usual stature of her sex, but as tender hearted as the tiniest” (Dasent) ; latterly of 6 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Middlesex ; buried St Luke, Chelsea 20 Jun 1839, aged 66 (will proved PCC 9 Jul 1839) ; she was already a widow in 1829. Under her undated will she bequeathed her entire estate, including her holdings of “annuities” and “consolidated long annuities”, to her “dear niece” Margaret Bower, except for her holding of 3 ½% reduced annuities, purchased at a cost of £1584 on 23 Jul 1835, which she bequeathed to her “dear niece” Mary Bower. Although her parentage remains uncertain, she was the sister-in-law of Anthony Bower (died 1823), Minster Yard, Lincoln, civil engineer and surveyor, the father of Margaret and Mary Bower. She may therefore have been a sister of Anthony Bower’s wife, Mary Tayler.

Singleton, ---; took over the Du Brieux boarding house in Dean’s Yard, which she managed jointly with her daughter Sarah Maria Singleton, wife of William Scott (above) ; first pupil admitted to boarding house under this name 8 Jul 1822, last pupil admitted 9 Jun 1828.

Severne, ---; proprietor of boarding house in late 1780s and early 1790s (house “had only seven boys”) ; John Smith (qv) became house usher there about Sep 1789 and moved to become house usher with Mrs Clapham at Whitsun 1791.

Scott, William; b. Wakefield, Yorks. (1851 Census, then aged 51 so b. c.1800) ; listed in Dean’s Yard, Boyle’s Court Guide 1828 ; first boarder admitted to house under this name 12 Jan 1829, last boarder admitted Jun 1854 ; F.H.Forshall (qv), adm. as a day-boarder to Scott’s in 1843, writes of the kindness of “the lady who kept it – Mrs Scott” ; m. 18 Aug 1827 Sarah Maria Singleton (b. City of London, 1851 Census) (already attached to Du Brieux boarding house in 1814, managing her own boarding house by Jun 1825, house still described as Singleton’s in Town Boy Ledger May 1832) : she aged 50 in 1851 (1851 Census), so born c.1801 : probably Sarah Maria Scott, death registered St.Margaret’s, Westminster, fourth quarter 1857). Father of George William Scott (qv). [1851 Census also records as living at 2 (sic) Deans Yard, their son George William Scott (qv), their dau. Henrietta Maria Scott, then aged 18, and Mrs Scott’s sister Jane Singleton (born City of London), then aged 55].

Russel, Richard; eldest son of Rev.Richard Russel, Vicar of Dallington, Sussex, and Susannah Hawes ; bapt.Dallington, Sussex 7 Aug 1685 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Jul 1698, aged 12 ; BA 1702 ; MA 1705 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1705, priest 18 Dec 1709 (both Chichester) ; Curate, Ripe, Sussex 1705 ; Vicar of Alfriston, Sussex 6 Jan 1709/10 – Jan 1715/6 ; Vicar of Selmeston, Sussex 6 Dec 1710 – Jan 1715/6 ; deprived of both livings as a non-juror 23 Jan 1715/6 ; writer, translator and editor ; editor, The Grub Street Journal 1730-7 ; kept a boarding house initially in College Street and then in North Street, first of thirteen recorded boarders adm. Feb 1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Jan 1741/2 ; m. 9 Sep 1712 Juliana, dau. of John Franckwell, Eastbourne, Sussex ; d. 3 Jan 1756. Father of Richard Russel (qv) and James Russel (qv). ODNB.

Price, ---; Russell Barker and Stenning record that a Dame of this name kept a small boarding house 1746-51, 1768 and 1787 (for 1787 see The World, 29 Sep 1787, but this is almost certainly a retrospective statement about a boarding house no longer in operation). First of four recorded boarders in the period up to the beginning of 1753 adm. Jan 1748/9, last recorded boarder adm. Jun 1751.

Preston, Sarah; sister of James Burges, a bell ringer, Westminster Abbey and aunt of Ann Burges (Dame, see above) ; kept a boarding house in Smith Street ; first of forty-eight recorded boarders adm. Jul 1735, last recorded boarder adm. Feb 1746/7 ; m. --- Preston (dead by 1733) ; d. 7 Apr 1747, aged 56 (will proved PCC 23 Apr 1747). Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

Porten, Catherine; daughter of James Porten, Putney, Surrey, merchant, Lieut.-Col. Blue Militia, City of London, and Mary Allen, Putney, Surrey ; b. 2 Dec 1705 ; Dame of a boarding house in College Street 1748-62 ; her nephew Edward Gibbon (adm. Jan 1747/8, qv) was the first of twenty-seven boarders recorded for her in the period for which boarding data is available, her last recorded boarder for this period being adm. Jan 1753 ; the first occupant of the Centre House on the Terrace 1763-71 (succeeded there by Mrs.Ottey) ; d. unm. in Newman Street, Oxford Street 23 Apr 1786 (will proved PCC 29 Apr 1786). Sister of Sir Stanier Porten, Kt., Under Secretary, Secretary of State’s Department, and aunt of Edward Gibbon (qv) and of Stanier James Porten (qv).