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Tollett, ---; presumably kin to George Tollett (qv) ; the bill for boarding William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (qv) in 1718-9, was paid to her.

Watts, Frances; sister of John Taylor, St Mary at Hill, City of London, vintner (as shown by her will and accompanying affidavit) ; aged 35 in 1733 ; kept a boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard from 1738 (previously occupied by Mrs.Beresford) (she directed in her will that “the house I live in” should be sold after her death) ; first two of seventy-one recorded boarders adm. Apr 1738, last three recorded boarders adm. Oct 1752, but her boarding house may be presumed to have continued to operate until her death ; her will expresses her wish to be buried in Barnes, Surrey, where she owned two copyhold messuages ; she bequeathed 10 guineas each for mourning rings to William Markham (qv), Head Master, Peirson Lloyd (qv), Under Master, and Charles Cooper (qv), “the usher of my house” ; m.1st, by c.1720, William Cox, surgeon, with whom she emigrated to Savannah, Georgia, North America, 1733 (but who d. there 1733) ; m.2nd, 1 Jun 1734 James Watt (or Watts), Lieut. South Carolina Independent Company (but who d. same month, she returning to England) ; d. Jan 1755 (London Evening Post, issue for 11-14 Jan 1755) (will dated 25 Jun 1754, with codicil 19 Dec 1754, proved PCC 24 Jan 1755, as of Frances Watts, Little Dean’s Yard, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, widow).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hutton, John; son of Joseph Hutton, Harefield, Middlesex ; bapt. Harefield, Middlesex 19 Aug 1676 ; ed. Eton, scholar 1689, and King’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.1694, matr. Easter 1695 ; BA 1698/9 ; MA 1702 (incorp.Oxford 30 Oct 1711) ; Fellow, King’s Coll. 1697 – Nov 1705 ; ordained deacon 18 Apr 1704, priest 19 May 1706 (both Lincoln) ; Curate, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk ; Vicar of Stanford in the Vale, Berks., 9 May 1707 – Jun 1715, when resigned as being a non-juror ; “in the year 1716 he began to keep Boarders for Westminster School” (London Evening Post, 29 Dec 1750) ; first of thirty-one recorded pupils during the period for which admission data is available was adm. Nov 1735, last pupil adm. Mar 1749/50, although it is stated that his boarding house in College Street was kept on by his widow to her death in Jul 1752 (her will proved PCC 2 May 1753) ; m. 4 May 1704 Elizabeth Ayscough, Caythorpe, Lincs., “a cousin of Sir Isaac Newton” ; d. Dec 1750, aged 74 (will proved PCC 3 Jan 1751). Father of James Hutton (qv). [mother’s father perhaps William Ayscough]

Jones, Mary Ann; Dame of 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1837-47 ; known as “the Black Serjeant”.

Langton, Edward; kept a boarding house in Little Smith Street 1768-84 (voter in Smith Street for parliamentary elections 1774 and 1780) ; evidently Edward Langton, St Stephens Court, New Palace Yard, Westminster, will dated 29 March 1792, proved PCC 13 Jul 1793 by his widow and executor Dorothy Langton ; his will shows that Joseph Auterac (qv) was his nephew. He can be identified as Edward Langton, a clerk in the office of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, one of the Tellers to the Exchequer, who was appointed Deputy and First Clerk to Lord Hardwicke as Teller of the Exchequer in Apr 1787.