Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Deceased Person
1814 – 1906
Who was Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts?
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a nineteenth-century philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and the former Sophia Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts. In 1837 she became one of the wealthiest women in England when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million pounds sterling, following the death of her stepgrandmother, Harriot Mellon. She joined the surnames of her father and grandfather, by royal licence, to become Burdett-Coutts. Edward VII is reported to have described her as, "[a]fter my mother, the most remarkable woman in the kingdom."
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- Born
- Apr 21, 1814
London - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- William Burdett-Coutts
(1881/02/12 - )
- William Burdett-Coutts
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Dec 30, 1906
- Resting place
- Westminster Abbey
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on July 23, 2013
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