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Howe, William; “Mr Willm How” (sic) is shown on an undated manuscript plan postdating 1740 as the lessee of part of Vaughan’s House (the house previously occupied by Mrs Beresford) ; “We hear that Mr.Howe, who keeps the French Boarding-House, in College-Street, near Westminster School, for young Gentlemen educated there, has taken the House in Little-Dean’s Yard, that the Rev.Dr.Nicoll is quitting” (London Evening Post, 5 – 7 Jun 1750 ; cf. advert in Westminster Journal 30 Jan 1747/8, for boarding house “at the Corner House of Barton Street, in College Street, fronting the Dormitory”, where boarders were taught “French, Writing and Accompts in general, Mensuration, Geography, and several Branches of the Mathematics” ; first of five recorded boarders adm. Jun 1749, last recorded boarder adm. Apr 1751, although it is possible that Howe took in further boarders after the available boarding data ceases. Note also that William Howe, gent., College Street, was a voter in Westminster constituency 1749. [William Howe, St.Margaret, Westminster, will proved PCC 28 Sep 1782]

Heath, S-; Dame of a boarding house in College Street, first of fifteen recorded boarders adm. Jan 1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Oct 1750. Russell Barker and Stenning gave the commencement date for the boarding house as 1730.

Hayward, ---; Dame of a boarding house in College Street 1762 (succeeding Mrs.Porten).

Hawkins, Elizabeth; a boarding house in Dean’s Yard was managed by a boarding house proprietor named Hawkins by Sep 1735 ; Mrs Hawkins was managing it by 1745 (payment of boarding fees for Robert Boothby (qv), as noted in account book owned in 2001 by Antony Cox) ; still Dame there Mar 1757 (see her bill for boarding of Francis Russell, Marquis of Tavistock (qv), for quarter ending 31 Mar 1757, Elizabethan, Mar 1936, 261). Her husband, “Mr Hawkins”, “who kept one of the largest Boarding Houses belonging to Westminster School, by which he had acquired a handsome Fortune”, had “died sitting in his Chair, at his House in Great Dean’s Yard, Westminster”, Nov 1738, Exposition on the Common Prayer no.80, 22 Nov 1738. First of eighty-seven boarders for the period for which boarding data is available was adm. Sep 1735, and last recorded boarder for this period was adm. Jun 1752, but the boarding house continued beyond that date, and six noblemen were among her boarders in 1757. Her husband may provisionally be identified as William Hawkins, St.Margaret, Westminster, bachelor, who m. at Westminster Abbey 15 Aug 1727 Elizabeth Erlin, same parish, spinster (perhaps dau. of Edward Earling, College baker), and who was father of children baptized there 14 Oct 1728 and 2 May 1730.

Russell Barker and Stenning record that she kept a boarding house in Dean’s Yard c.1743-53; first of twelve recorded boarders adm. Jun 1743, last recorded boarder adm. May 1752, but the boarding house may well have remained in existence for a period after the available boarding house data ceases at the beginning of 1753. She can be identified as Mrs Elizabeth Hart, dau. of Mrs.Mary Bainbrigg, Dame of a boarding house in Dean’s Yard to her death in Apr 1743, and, if so, she presumably took over her mother’s house.

Harris, ---; took over a boarding house in Dean’s Yard previously kept by Rev.Samuel Wesley (qv) (advertisement in General Advertiser 11 Mar 1747), but no Westminster School boarders are recorded with her over the period 1735-53, and her boarding house may not have taken boarders of school age.

Grant, Mary; Dame of boarding house in Great Smith Street 1747-9, of house on site of old Bursary 1749-65, and of house which stood on part of the site of Vaughan’s House (now 2 Little Dean’s Yard) from 1765 ; d. 5 May 1787, aged 82. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. Perhaps step-mother or grandmother of Rev.Richard Grant (adm.1750/1), whose mother’s Christian name was Margaret.

Grant, John; kept boarding house in Great Smith Street in 1746-7. First of twenty-five recorded boarders with John Grant and/or Mary Grant within period for which boarding house data exists adm. Jan 1745/6, last recorded boarder adm. Sep 1752. Perhaps husband or son of Mrs.Mary Grant (below) ; the given name of the mother of his two sons Charles and Richard was Margaret.

Glover, Sarah; daughter of Mrs Marian Clough (qv) ; succeeded her mother as Dame of the Centre House on the Terrace, presumably on her mother’s death in May 1798 (preceding Mrs Packharness), boarding house still in being 1806 ; m. (by 1789) Rev.Richard Glover (listed in Dean’s Yard, Boyle’s Court Guide 1808 ; he of St.John’s Coll.Cambridge ; on electoral register as of Dean’s Yard 1802-6) ; d. Oct 1820. Mother of Robert Glover (qv). (Richard Glover was son of John Glover, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland ; ed Sedbergh Sch. and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, matr.Mich.1763, scholar 1766, BA 1767, MA 1771 ; ordained deacon 1 Feb 1767, priest 20 Sep 1767 (both Lincoln) ; Curate Whaplode Drove, Lincs., 1767 ; career then obscure, but Curate, St.John, Westminster 1802-5, Vicar of Dagenham, Essex 1811-6, Chaplain, St.Mary’s Hospital, Ilford, Essex, from 1814 ; d. Jun 1824).

Gibson, Isabel; kept a boarding house in College Street from Feb 1742/3, when first of eighteen recorded boarders admitted, last recorded boarders adm. Jan.1750/1 ; her boarders included Warren Hastings (qv) ; m. Rev.William Gibson (d.1746), St.John the Evangelist, Westminster (his will, dated 8 February 1745/6, and proved 20 March 1745/6), expresses his wish to be buried at Broadway Chapel) ; d. 28 Aug 1753, described as “relict of the late Rev.Mr.Gibson, a gentlewoman universally beloved and esteemed by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance” (Read’s Weekly Journal 1 Sep 1753). In her will dated 20 Aug 1753, proved PCC 8 Aug 1753 (sic, obviously incorrectly), Isabel Gibson, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, widow, left legacies to Aclomb Milbanke (qv) (£50), John Milbanke (qv) (a mahogany chest), their mother Lady Milbanke (a “screen mahogany table”), and Daniel Crofts (qv) (“my silver punch ladle”), and she made Sir William Russell, Bart. (qv) her residuary legatee and one of her executors. She also refers in her will to “the bed and furniture of Mr Burnett’s room”, indicating that Matthew Burnett (qv) is likely to have been her house usher. It is very possible that she should be identified as Isabel Wharton, St John the Evangelist, Westminster, spinster, who m. at St.Benet’s, Paul’s Wharf 2 May 1734 William Gibson, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, bachelor.