[1][a] William Lord Berkeley, a beneficiary of Baroness Belasyse's estate, inherited the house with the receipt of deeds in 1714 and 1716.

From 1746 to 1755, Count Petr Grigorevich Chernyshev, the Russian Ambassador in London lived there with his wife and two daughters.

[1][5] A school may have operated continuously from that time until 1802 when the property was sold by Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet, the grandson of Mary Edwards, to Thomas Wetherell of Hammersmith, London.

One of the ushers was the future King Louis Philippe I, son of Charles X of France, who visited the school on one occasion.

Among students from the Caribbean were many of the children and grandchildren of Dorothy Thomas, including her daughter Dorothea Christina and granddaughter Henrietta Simon Sala.

[1][5] Antonio Salterelli and his wife operated a Catholic boarding establishment, with a house chapel, from 1815 to 1825.

Inchbald had described Kensington House as "extremely genteel and cheerful, changing however too frequently for perfect cordiality and the formation of intimacy."

[3][7] In 1838, Richard Paternoster, a former civil servant in the East India Company, stayed 41 days in William Finch's asylum at Kensington House having been detained following a disagreement with his father over money.

After his release in 1851 the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society helped him sue the proprietor of Kensington House, Dr Francis Philps, for wrongful confinement but the case was unsuccessful.