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Best, ---; listed as householder in Little Dean’s Yard, Boyle’s Court Guide 1817 – Jan 1823 (as Miss Best) ; took over management of boarding house at 1 Little Dean’s Yard after her mother’s death in 1815 ; last boarder admitted to house when under her name was on 3 Jun 1822. Her mother’s will shows that Mrs Best had two daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, and it seems probable that Jane Best, who acted as one of her mother’s executors together with her brother George, should be identified as the “Miss Best” who managed the boarding house. Jane Best, “daughter of the late George Best, esq., of Pershore, Worcester”, m. 12 Mar 1829 William Holmes, Chester Place, Kennington, Surrey. [Note that Elizabeth Best, “second daughter of the late George Best, of Pershore, Worcester, esq.”, m. at Granville, Nova Scotia 20 May 1823, as his second wife Thomas Ritchie (1777-1852), barrister, “member for the county of Annapolis”, later Judge ; d. spring 1825, having been “fatally injured when thrown from a horse”]

Berry, John; eldest son of Rev.John Berry, Nonconformist minister, formerly Rector of East Down, Devon ; b. Barnstaple, Devon c.1662 ; ed Barnstaple School ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, matr.1680 ; BA 1683/4 ; MA 1687 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1685, priest 28 Feb 1685/6 (both Lincoln) ; Curate, Knebworth, Herts. ; Vicar of Watton, Norfolk, from 26 Aug 1691 (also Rector of Griston, Norfolk 9 Nov 1694- Sep 1699, Threxton, Norfolk 1698) ; he and his wife are said to have “boarded young gentlemen belonging to the school [Westminster School]” (A.Clarke, Memoirs of the Wesley family, 1823, 458), and it is suggested that this is how his daughter and her future husband became acquainted ; m. 21 Sep 1691 Ursula, dau. of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Rector of Knebworth, Herts., and half-sister of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Minor Canon of Westminster ; buried 28 Sep 1730. Father-in-law of Samuel Wesley (qv), Usher. [But note that the statement by Adam Clarke in his book of 1823 seems to be the only evidence that Berry and his wife conducted a boarding house for Westminster pupils, and a complication is that they would been doing this while Berry was also a Church of England clergyman in Norfolk]

Beresford, Alice; Dame of the boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard which stood in 1709 on part of the site of Vaughan’s House (approximately where nos. 2 and 3 Little Dean’s Yard were subsequently built) ; there by 28 Apr 1707 and still there at 5 Jun 1719 ; the household furniture of Mrs Beresford, Little Dean’s Yard, deceased, was sold by auction 21 Apr 1731 following.

Bedford, Hilkiah; third son of Hilkiah Bedford, Hosier Lane, West Smithfield, London, mathematical instrument maker, and Mary, dau. of William Plat ; b. 23 Jul 1663 ; ed. Bradley, Suffolk, and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, Plat scholar 1679 ; Fellow, St.John’s Coll. 1685 ; ordained deacon 18 Sep 1686 (Ely), priest 25 Sep 1687 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Wittering, Northants., 26 Nov 1687, but ejected as a non-juror 1690 ; Chaplain to Thomas Ken, ejected Bishop of Bath and Wells ; travelling tutor to pupils on Grand Tour in France and Italy ; found guilty in 1714 of writing, publishing and printing a seditious libel, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment (although the pamphlet in question, The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted, 1713, had not in fact been written by him) ; Chaplain to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea Jan 1719 ; consecrated a non-juring bishop by Bishops Spinckes, Hawes and Gandy 25 Jan 1720/1 ; kept a boarding house on Millbank for the School from summer 1718 ; his surviving correspondence in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, includes a few references to boarders being placed with him ; m. Alice, dau. of William Cooper, Scarborough, Yorks., master mariner ; d. 26 Nov 1724. Father of William, John and Thomas Bedford (qvv). ODNB.

Baines, Jane Capel; dau. of Rev. Isaac Steele, Curate, Upton on Severn, Worcs. ; Dame of 1 Little Dean’s Yard Jan 1805 – c.1809 ; m. 22 Apr 1783 Lieut. Capel Baines, Royal Navy (who d. 19 Mar 1789). [draft will for Jane Capel Baines, 1819, exists in Shropshire Archives]

Bainbrigg, Mary; Dame of a boarding house in Dean’s Yard, first of twelve recorded boarders adm. Apr 1737, last boarder adm. Jun 1742 ; m. (William ?) Bainbrigg ; d. 12 Apr 1743, aged 59 (will proved PCC 26 Apr 1743). Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

Troutbeck, John; eldest son of George Troutbeck, Dacre, Cumberland, and Eliza, eldest dau. of Rev.John Stephenson, Vicar of Dacre, Cumberland ; bapt. Dacre, Cumberland 3 May 1833 (IGI) ; ed. Rugby Sch. and University Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 May 1852, aged 19 ; SCL 1855 ; BA 1856 ; MA 1858 ; DD Lambeth 1883 ; ordained deacon 1855, priest 1857 (both Bath & Wells) ; Curate, St.Cuthbert’s, Wells, Somerset 1855-8 ; Vicar of Dacre, Cumberland 1858-64 ; Minor Canon, Manchester Cathedral 1864-9, Precentor 1865-9 ; Minor Canon and Precentor, Westminster Abbey, from 1869 ; Music Master Jun 1871 – May 1877 ; Hon. Priest in Ordinary to Queen Victoria 1872-5, Priest in Ordinary 1875-9, Hon.Chaplain 1884-9, Chaplain in Ordinary from 1889 ; Secretary, New Testament Revision Co., 1870-81 ; author, Church Choir Training, and, with J.F.Bridge, The Westminster Abbey Chant Book, 1894 ; also translator, music related publications; m. 3 Sep 1856 Elizabeth Forbes, dau. of Robinson Duckworth, Huddersfield, Yorks., merchant, and sister of Rev.Robinson Duckworth CVO VD DD, Canon of Westminster ; d. 11 Oct 1899. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. Father of John Troutbeck (qv) and Henry Troutbeck (qv).

Tourrier, Jean Furcy; son of Jean Louis Thomas Tourrier, and Sophie Honorine Turban ; b. Paris ; teaching French in London by Feb 1830 ; French Master at the School c.1841 – c.1852 (he claimed to have taught French at Westminster School for fourteen years) ; Reader to Princess Sophia ; author, textbooks on learning French, including The Model-Book, or One Hundred Lessons on the True Principles of the Pronunciation and Construction of the French Language, written for the Use of Westminster School, 3rd ed., nd (c.1845), 106 Familiar and Easy Dialogues in French and English, and Guide to Paris and its Environs (etc), 1855 ; m. 20 Jun 1833 Constantia Eleonora, teacher of singing, youngest dau. of Matthias von Holst, London (originally from Riga, Latvia), musician ; d. 26 Jan 1867, aged 68. Father of Alfred Holst Tourrier (adm.1849, qv).

Thibaudin, (Louis-Francois) Auguste; second son of Jean Thibaudin, Moulins-Engilbert (Nièvre), France, surveyor, and Jeanne Balandreau ; b. 19 Jul 1818 ; ed. Collège Royal, Bourges ; resident St.Giles Cripplegate parish, London, in 1841 (1841 Census) ; by 1842 he was teaching French at 142 Cheapside and 19 Castle Street, Falcon Square ; French Master at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Ipswich (there in 1852) ; Assistant French Master, King’s Coll.Sch., London 1853-5, French Master there 1855 – 1860s ; French Master at the School Sep 1864 – Dec 1867 ; returned to France ; Mayor of Moulins-Engilbert 23 Feb 1881 – Apr 1885 ; a younger brother of his, Jean Thibaudin, was a General in the French Army and briefly Minister of War under the Third Republic ; author, textbooks in English on the French language, including Proposed Original System for a Radical, Universal & Philosophical Reform in the Spelling of Languages, London, 1842, in which he proposed replacing all vowels partly by numbers and partly by “new vocal characters” ; d. 29 Dec 1885.

Steward, Thomas; b. c.1771 (1851 Census) ; Writing and Arithmetic Master 1798 (?) –1829 ; of Dean’s Yard, Westminster ; taught writing and arithmetic to the future Queen Victoria c.1830 – Jun 1837 ; “a man called Stewart who taught writing, arithmetic and very poor mathematics on half holidays”, according to William Smythe (qv) ; m. 1st, 5 Mar 1795 (IGI) Frances Harper ; m.2nd, (by 1835) Annie --- ; d. 14 Feb 1859. Father of Thomas Francis Steward (qv).