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Morel, Philippia; dau. of --- Chancey ; of Chiswick, Middlesex, on marriage ; already keeping a boarding house for the School by 30 Sep 1728, when she received a payment for the boarding fees of Chamberlayne and Robert Dashwood (qvv) ; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1738-54 and at 1 Little Dean’s Yard from 1754 (succeeding Mrs.Watts there) ; first three of fifty-three recorded boarders in period for which boarding data is available adm. Apr 1738, last recorded boarder adm. Feb 1753, two further boarders recorded later ; her initial three boarders included Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (qv), a future Prime Minister, and later boarders included Jeremy Bentham (qv) ; she bequeathed the remainder of the lease of “the house I now dwell in”, evidently 1 Little Dean’s Yard, to her son William Morel (qv) ; she also bequeathed to a grand-daughter “my diamond ring that was given me by His Grace the Duke of Leeds in memory of his son the late Marquis of Carmarthen deceased” (who will therefore have been one of her boarders) ; m. 1727 John Niccolo Morel (of St.James’s, Westminster, on marriage), Page of the Backstairs to Queen Caroline (occurs 1734-7) (his will proved PCC 5 Jan 1749, as of St.John the Evangelist, Westminster) ; d. 2 Feb 1768 (Public Advertiser 4 Feb 1768). Will dated 30 Apr 1765, proved PCC 3 Mar 1768, she of St.Margaret’s, Westminster, widow. [Receipted bill for school expenses of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., quarter ending 23 Apr 1743, is signed “T.W.Morel” (transcription by A.M.W.Stirling, The Hothams, ii, 2, note), but “T.W,”is no doubt a misreading of “J.N.”]
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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.