Biographical notes.
The names of the occupants of the house during the latter part of the 18th century are given by the ratebooks as follows:—
| 1781–83. | —— Lande. |
| 1783–89. | —— Lyde. |
| 1789–90. | Chas. Shaw Lefevre. |
| 1790–97. | John Lefevre. |
| 1797–98. | Chas. Lefevre. |
| 1798– | Henry Davison. |
The “Chas. Shaw Lefevre” and “Chas. Lefevre” shown in the parish ratebooks as occupying the house in 1789–90 and 1797–98[[725]] respectively was Charles Shaw, a barrister, who, on his marriage with Helena, only daughter of John Lefevre (possibly the occupier in 1790–96), assumed the additional name of Lefevre. His eldest son, Charles, afterwards Viscount Eversley, was born in 1794, and, therefore, while the family was not resident here; but the birth of his second son, John George (afterwards Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre) took place at this house on 24th January, 1797.[[726]] John George had a distinguished career as a public official. He had a passion for acquiring languages, and mastered fourteen. He died in 1879.