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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.
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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.