Thomas Rickard (c. 1788 - 1847) Henry Stein Turrell (1815 – 1863) Thomas Rickard From at least 1822, Thomas Rickard kept a boys’ boarding school at 35 West Street. In 1823, he purchased from Thomas Read Kemp a large stretch of land to the east of Montpelier Road and immediately north of Lady Gosford’s house and garden (where Waitrose stands today), and moved his school there. A plan dated 1825 names “Mr Rickard’s school” but there is no sign of a building. Pigot Smith’s m
