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Jones, John, fl. 1751
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fl. 1751
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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.
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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.