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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”]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.