Boreham House stayed in the Hoares family until 1785, when William Walford bought it and rented it to Sir Elija Impey a British judge, until 1792.
The wife of Elijah Impey, the chief justice of Bengal, she established a menagerie in Calcutta and commissioned Indian artists to paint the various creatures.
Elijah | Elijah Wood | Elijah Cummings | Elijah (oratorio) | Elijah Muhammad | Elijah Impey | Elijah Harper | Mary Impey | John Impey | Elijah W. Reed | Elijah Waring | Elijah Wald | Elijah Stephens | Elijah Sandham | Elijah Rhoades | Elijah "Pumpsie" Green | Elijah Parish | Elijah Paine | Elijah Montalto | Elijah, Missouri | Elijah McCoy | Elijah Masinde | Elijah Joy | Elijah Joel Smith | Elijah Blue Allman | Aaron ben Elijah |
Large-scale patrons included Colonel James Skinner of Skinner's Horse fame, who had a Rajput mother, and for natural history paintings, Mary Impey, wife of Elijah Impey, who commissioned over three hundred, and the Marquess Wellesley, brother of the first Duke of Wellington, who had over 2,500.