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Packharness, ---; succeeded Mrs.Glover as Dame of the Centre House on the Terrace (by 14 Jul 1808, when Lord William Pitt Lennox (qv) became a boarder there) ; listed there Boyle’s Court Guide 1814 ; last boarder admitted to boarding house when under her name was on 16 Jun 1819 ; succeeded by Mrs.Stelfox ; “Mrs Packharness and Miss [sic] Stelfox were both sort of half ladies and had been governesses” (according to reminiscences dictated by William Smythe (qv)). [Was this Mrs Packharness, widow of John Packharness, St.Ann’s, Jamaica, plantation owner, and mother of Eliza Mary Packharness (b.1785), wife of Charles Markham ?] [possibly = Mrs Packharness, proprietor of a ladies’ school in Lincoln at some date in or before 1811].

Jones, John; kept a boarding house at 1 Dean’s Yard to 1778, when he was succeeded by Mrs.Clapham (George Colman, Random Recollections, 1830, i, 81) ; first of three recorded boarders adm.Jul 1751, last recorded boarder adm. Nov 1752, but the available boarding data only covers the period up to the beginning of 1753, and the boarding house may be assumed to have been in continuous existence until the 1770s. It should however be noted that in a contemporary list of “The names of the Noblemen at Westm. School in 1757”, Lord Norreys, to be identified as Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon (qv), is recorded as boarding “at Mr Jones’s”, while “Mr Devereux, son to Ld Hereford”, to be identified as Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford (qv), is recorded as boarding “at Mr Jones’ in College Street”, leaving as possibilities either that John Jones had kept a boarding house in College Street before moving to Dean’s Yard, or that two separate individuals with the surname Jones were managing boarding houses at this date. John Jones, Dean’s Yard, was a legatee under the will of Mrs Mary Salt, dated 29 Dec 1766, and was a voter in Dean’s Yard at parliamentary election in 1774 ; m.

Ludford, Ann; only daughter of Rev.Edward Taylor, Rector of Finningley, Notts., and Rachel (Mrs.Rachel Taylor, Dame), dau. of Thomas Baker, Oxford, and sister of Mrs. Ann Playford, Dame ; kept the boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard previously managed by her aunt Mrs Playford ; first of thirty-two recorded boarders adm. Oct 1742, last recorded boarder adm. Feb 1746/7 ; additional boarders inherited by her from Mrs Playford included the poet William Cowper (adm. Apr 1742, qv) ; her husband, Thomas Ludford, provided an account for “Masters Arthur and John Chichester” 10 Feb 1753, Shakespeare Birthday Trust archives, but the Chichester brothers had been entered up Grant’s, and it seems probable that Ludford had paid their boarding fees for Grant’s himself and was invoicing the Chichester family for repayment ; m.1st, in or before 1727, Thomas Bold, Thames Street, London, distiller ; m.2nd, 29 May 1731 Thomas Ludford (formerly Bracebridge) (d.1776) (will proved PCC 28 Jun 1776, as of Hayes, Middlesex) ; d. 15 May 1748, aged 50. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. Mother of Edward Taylor Ludford (qv).

Morel, Philippia; dau. of --- Chancey ; of Chiswick, Middlesex, on marriage ; already keeping a boarding house for the School by 30 Sep 1728, when she received a payment for the boarding fees of Chamberlayne and Robert Dashwood (qvv) ; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1738-54 and at 1 Little Dean’s Yard from 1754 (succeeding Mrs.Watts there) ; first three of fifty-three recorded boarders in period for which boarding data is available adm. Apr 1738, last recorded boarder adm. Feb 1753, two further boarders recorded later ; her initial three boarders included Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (qv), a future Prime Minister, and later boarders included Jeremy Bentham (qv) ; she bequeathed the remainder of the lease of “the house I now dwell in”, evidently 1 Little Dean’s Yard, to her son William Morel (qv) ; she also bequeathed to a grand-daughter “my diamond ring that was given me by His Grace the Duke of Leeds in memory of his son the late Marquis of Carmarthen deceased” (who will therefore have been one of her boarders) ; m. 1727 John Niccolo Morel (of St.James’s, Westminster, on marriage), Page of the Backstairs to Queen Caroline (occurs 1734-7) (his will proved PCC 5 Jan 1749, as of St.John the Evangelist, Westminster) ; d. 2 Feb 1768 (Public Advertiser 4 Feb 1768). Will dated 30 Apr 1765, proved PCC 3 Mar 1768, she of St.Margaret’s, Westminster, widow. [Receipted bill for school expenses of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., quarter ending 23 Apr 1743, is signed “T.W.Morel” (transcription by A.M.W.Stirling, The Hothams, ii, 2, note), but “T.W,”is no doubt a misreading of “J.N.”]

Ottey, Elizabeth; daughter of Nathaniel Fairclough, Stowmarket, Suffolk, and Mary Grimwood ; bapt. Whatfield, Suffolk 23 Sep 1734 ; Dame of the Centre House on the Terrace 1771 (succeeding Mrs Porten) until about Christmas 1785 (preceding Mrs Farren) (surname incorrectly given by Russell Barker and Stenning as Ottley) ; m. 12 Jun 1753 Rev.Thomas Ottey (died 1762), Curate of Hadleigh, Suffolk, Vicar of Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk 1754-5, also described as being of Great Horkesley, Essex) ; d. at Hadleigh, Suffolk 27 Aug 1799 (will proved PCC 6 Nov 1799, widow, Hadleigh, Suffolk), described in death notice in GM as “formerly of Deans Yard, Westminster”.

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

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]

Levett, ---; Dame of a boarding house in Smith Street, first of eighteen recorded boarders adm. May 1741, last recorded boarder adm. Jun 1751. [note will Elizabeth Levett, St.Margaret, Westminster, spinster, dated 1 July 1748, proved PCC 6 Jul 1748, leaving all her personal estate to her “dear and well beloved friend Mr George Davise”]

Clough, Marian; Dame of 1 Little Dean’s Yard (in succession to Rev.W.Morel) 1781-8, afterwards Dame of the Centre House on the Terrace (succeeding Mrs.Farren and Samuel Hayes, and preceding her dau. Mrs.Glover) ; her will, dated Jan 1796, was proved PCC 12 Jun 1798, as of Marian Clough, widow, parish of St.Margaret, Westminster ; she directed in it that her daughter’s husband, Rev.Richard Glover, should be “cut off … from having the most trifling article belonging to me”, he having failed to keep his promise to pay £500 that she needed “to pay for this house” [evidently the Centre House on the Terrace] ; m. --- Clough ; d. 21 May 1798, aged 64. Buried West Cloister, Westminster Abbey. [But Southey states that she “migrated thither [the Centre House on the Terrace] with a few boarders from Abingdon Street”]

Farren, Elizabeth; Dame of the Centre House on the Terrace from about Christmas 1785 (succeeding Mrs.Ottey) ; the house continued to be known as Ottey’s, but was renamed Hayes’s after her marriage on 1 May 1788 with Samuel Hayes (qv), when his adjoining boarding house was amalgamated with hers ; following the appointment of John Wingfield (qv) as Under Master later in the same year, in preference to Hayes, Hayes and his wife left Westminster and their house was taken over by Mrs Clough.