Peter Bathurst (1686-1748) or Walnut Tree House; house re-built by Edward Chapman, bricklayer
1770 *Lord Fortescue. Either Matthew Fortescue of Castle Hill (1719-85), 2nd Baron, or Dormer Fortescue Aland (d1780) of Credan >1780
1779 House badly damaged by fire.
1781 Mrs Bearford
1783/4 Empty, late Lord Fortescue (Samuel Lewis)
1786 Mr Dutton
Miss Dutton’s Female Boarding School (mentioned by Joseph Farington in 1804: 20 ladies @ £200pa)
Mrs Lewis, ditto
1818 Joshua & Edward Chapman, copyhold of Syon Manor
1841 Charlotte Clark (b1791), teacher + 29 children (5 boys) from 6 to 15 + 5 female staff all aged 20
1846 Messrs Chapman (146 on Warren map)
Dr Henry Nicholson
M Raymond de Vericour
Rev James Balfour
1851 George Scott (b 1812) , Henry Dixon, Schoolmasters and 16 pupils
1857 Henry Dixon (1802-1857). Henry’s wife Selina (nee Burney) was the daughter of William Burney, founder of the Royal Naval Academy at Gosport
1860 George Rumsey, Boarding School
1870 Metropolitan & City Police Orphanage
1872 Walter William Alcock
1878 Shaftesbury Homes > 1937
1919 Samuel Holloway, Superintendent & Mary Jane Holloway, Matron
1938 House demolished