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Gibson, Isabel; kept a boarding house in College Street from Feb 1742/3, when first of eighteen recorded boarders admitted, last recorded boarders adm. Jan.1750/1 ; her boarders included Warren Hastings (qv) ; m. Rev.William Gibson (d.1746), St.John the Evangelist, Westminster (his will, dated 8 February 1745/6, and proved 20 March 1745/6), expresses his wish to be buried at Broadway Chapel) ; d. 28 Aug 1753, described as “relict of the late Rev.Mr.Gibson, a gentlewoman universally beloved and esteemed by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance” (Read’s Weekly Journal 1 Sep 1753). In her will dated 20 Aug 1753, proved PCC 8 Aug 1753 (sic, obviously incorrectly), Isabel Gibson, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, widow, left legacies to Aclomb Milbanke (qv) (£50), John Milbanke (qv) (a mahogany chest), their mother Lady Milbanke (a “screen mahogany table”), and Daniel Crofts (qv) (“my silver punch ladle”), and she made Sir William Russell, Bart. (qv) her residuary legatee and one of her executors. She also refers in her will to “the bed and furniture of Mr Burnett’s room”, indicating that Matthew Burnett (qv) is likely to have been her house usher. It is very possible that she should be identified as Isabel Wharton, St John the Evangelist, Westminster, spinster, who m. at St.Benet’s, Paul’s Wharf 2 May 1734 William Gibson, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, bachelor.
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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.