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Kean, Moses; Writing and Drawing Master in 1767 (as ---- Kean, Christian name not stated) ; the “genuine library of books…. belonging to Mr.Moses Kean, drawings master, of Little Dean’s Yard” was sold by auction in London 5 Aug 1775 ; d. 15 Oct 1774 (name spelled “Caen”).

Jekyll, Charles Sherwood; son of Robert Jekyll, Tufton Street, Westminster, grocer, and Mary Davis ; b. 29 Nov 1842 ; ed.Westminster Abbey Choir School ; Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey 1860-75 ; Organist, St.George’s, Hanover Square 1861-76, Chapel Royal 1876-91 ; Music Master Jan 1871 – Dec 1876 ; living in Barton Street, Westminster, in 1881 (1881 Census), and at Richmond, Surrey, in 1901 (1901 Census), described as “Professor of Music” ; [unm. in 1881] ; composer of services, anthems, hymns ; d. 7 Nov 1914.

Grandineau, Francois; b. France c.1797 (1851 Census) ; teaching French to the future Queen Victoria by 1830 – Jun 1837 ; described as “French Master to HRH the Princess Victoria and Professor of the French Language at Westminster School”, on the title leaf of his Grammaire Royale, London, 1836 ; French Master at Westminster School (by early 1827, see Town Boy ledger, still listed as such British Imperial Calendar, 1841) ; in receipt of pension of £100 p.a. for his services as teacher to Queen Victoria ; of Southend Cottage, St.Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, London ; latterly living in Brighton, Sussex ; author Conversations Familières, 1832, Le Petit Precepteur or First Step to French Conversation, and Il Piccolo Precettore, or First Steps to Italian Conversation, 1853 ; m. Maria Billard --- ; d. at Brighton, Sussex 18 May 1855, aged 59

Fenn, William Wilthew; son of William Hugh Fenn, Secretary to Royal Free Hospital, London, and Treasurer to Covent Garden Opera, and Mary --- (IGI) ; b. 6 Jun 1827 ; a landscape painter ; Drawing Master by Jun 1862 – Dec 1864 ; blindness in the mid 1860s caused him to earn his living from then onwards as a writer for periodicals ; living Great Marlborough Street, London, in 1881 (1881 Census) ; m. 1 Jan 1867 Elizabeth Susan Eleanor, youngest dau. of Rev.Henry Robert Bowles, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Unitarian minister ; d. 19 Dec 1906.

Egley, William Maw; son of William Egley, London, miniature painter, and his first wife Sarah, dau. of William Maw, Kings Lynn, Norfolk ; b. 1826 ; painter of historical subjects, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1843 and 1898 ; also exhibited at British Institution and Society of British Artists ; Drawing Master Sep 1870 – Dec 1873 ; living at Chiswick, Middlesex, in 1901 (1901 Census) ; his diaries for 1840-1910 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; m. 16 Aug 1849 Mary Ann, dau. of James Hubbard, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, shipbroker ; d. 20 Feb 1916.

Dupont, Jean Baptiste Onesime; b. ; teacher at Collège Henri IV, Paris, to 1848 ; Commandant of a battalion of the Garde Nationale in Paris during 1848 revolution ; friend of the French radical politician Ledru-Rollin ; fled to England and sentenced in his absence to 10 years forced labour for his actions during the revolution ; a paragraph in the Standard newspaper for 19 Mar 1852 records that “M.Dupont, professor of the University of France, having been proscribed by the French government, and decided upon establishing himself in this country, has arrived in London for the purpose, and has since his arrival been engaged as professor at Westminster School” (but Dupont’s appointment to the Westminster School staff had taken place in 1850) ; French Master 1850 (Town Boy Ledger) – Aug 1868 ; Examiner in French, St.Paul’s School 1857-70 ; Examiner in French for the Civil Service (by 1858, still 1870) ; living in Cavendish Square, Marylebone, in 1861 (1861 Census, as Jean Baptiste Dupont), then aged 49 ; returned to France on fall of Napoleon III ; Conseiller Municipal, Paris, under Third Republic ; d. while playing billiards in Paris 24 Feb 1888, aged 77 (death reported in English-speaking press as that of “Octave” Dupont, wrongly).

Champion, Edward Charles; son of Edward Champion, engraver, Camberwell, Kent ; b. 1845 (birth registered St.George’s, Southwark second quarter 1845) ; art student (1871 Census) ; Drawing Master Jan 1874-84 ; portrait painter, living Kennington, Surrey (1881 Census) ; m. Annie --- (1881 Census) (marriage registered Camberwell, first quarter 1876) ; d. 14 Nov 1899, as of Metropolitan Asylum, Caterham, Surrey, aged 54 : it is likely that he had been a mental patient for some time, since he was no longer living at home with his wife by the time of the 1891 Census.

Bowack, John; writing master, resident in Chelsea, by Dec 1702 ; living in Church Lane, Chelsea in 1705 ; Writing Master at the School by 1712 -c.1730 ; Clerk and Secretary to Trustees for repairing the Roads in the Parishes of Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham from Jul 1732 (still May 1756) ; Assistant Secretary to Westminster Bridge Commissioners Jul 1736 (still 1749) ; author, The Antiquities of Middlesex, 1705-6 ; living 1756. ODNB.

Woollcombe, Louis; second son of Rev.Henry Woollcombe, Rector of Ashbury, Devon, and Jane Frances, dau. of Rear-Adm.Sir Thomas Louis, Bart., Royal Navy ; b. 1814 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1832, aged 17 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, scholar 1832-7 ; BA 1835 ; MA (from Exeter Coll.) 1838 ; Usher 1836-7 ; Fellow of Exeter Coll., Oxford 1837-45; ordained deacon 1840, priest 1841 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Petrockstow, Devon Jan 1845-83 ; Vicar of Menheniot, Cornwall, from 1883; m. 18 Jan 1854 Augusta Rundell, dau. of Rev. Charles Brown, Rector of Whitstone, Devon ; d. 19 Apr 1889.

Wingfield, Charles Lee; third son of John Muxloe Wingfield, Tickencote, Rutland, and Catherine Anne Harriet, dau. of Harry Lancelot Lee, Coton Hall, Shropshire ; bapt.Tickencote, Rutland 11 Sep 1832 (IGI) ; ed.Uppingham Sch. and Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 Apr 1850, aged 17 ; BA 1854 ; MA 1857 ; Fellow of All Souls Coll. 1855-71, Chaplain 1858-64 ; Proctor 1869 ; Assistant Master (Classics) 1856-60 ; the last House Master of Scott’s ; ordained deacon 1858, priest 1859 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Welwyn, Herts., 1870-96 ; Rural Dean, Welwyn 1871-95 ; Hon.Canon, St.Albans 1877 ; m. 1 Oct 1874 Mary Charlotte, dau. of Col.Frederick Rodolph Blake CB, 33rd Foot ; d. 2 Jul 1897.