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Des Carrieres, Jean Thomas Herissant; b. Paris 1742 ; emigrated to London by the late 1760s, where he became a bookseller and gave French lessons ; taking boarders at 16 Cowley Street 1791 ; “Messrs. Des Carrieres and Ouiseau, Masters of Languages, continue to receive in their house, No.16, Cowley Street, Westminster, young Gentlemen who attend Westminster School” (advert in J. Ouiseau, Practical Geography, 1794, stating that “number of Boarders limited to twelve”) ; author of French-English grammars and of translations from the French ; d. at Croydon, Surrey 13 Jun 1820.
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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.