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Holly Village, Swain's Ln & Chester Rd, Highgate, London N19 5DH
Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools, Rochester St, Westminster, London SW1P 2QQ
St Stephen, 38-42 Rochester Row, Westminster, London SW1P 1LE

Mrs Hannah Brown was Angela Burdett-Coutts' governess and long-time companion. She was "Dr. William Brown. Hannah Meredith, before her marriage in 1844, was Angela’s governess, having been appointed in 1826. She remained with the Burdett family and when Angela inherited the Coutts fortune in 1837 Hannah Meredith become her female companion, a live-in role that Hannah played until her own death in 1878. Diana Orton states on pp. 101 – 102 when writing on the Meredith-Brown marriage that 'Angela was not losing a companion but gaining a resident physician and adviser, for Dr. Brown gave up his medical partnership and moved with Hannah into apartments in the spacious Piccadilly mansion.' "

James Drummond - Portrait of the Baroness Burdett Coutts and her companion Mrs Brown, Edinburgh, 1874

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