Rhoda Wyburn

Rhoda Wyburn (25 August 1841 - 8 May 1934) was an English milliner who with her sister Emily ran a successful business in Regent Street that enabled them to buy Hadley Manor near Chipping Barnet in north London.

[1][2] With her sister Emily, Rhoda Wyburn ran a millinery business in Bridgwater, Somerset, and later had premises at 246 Regent Street, London, under the name Mademoiselle Emelie.

[4] The manor house stood on the eastern side of Hadley Green Road, to the north of Chipping Barnet, until it was destroyed by fire in the early 1930s.

Miss Wyburn also funded the first Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the area which was "a good iron hut" transferred to East Barnet from Hadley Manor in 1915.

[8] In 1901, a Miss Wyburn laid the foundation stone for the Queen Victoria's Seamen's Rest home in Jeremiah Street, Poplar.