Biography of Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts 1814-1906
Paternal Family Tree: Burdett
Around 1604. Unknown Painter. Portrait of Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
In 1793 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 22) and [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett were married. She brought £25,000 to the marriage.
On 13 Feb 1797 Robert Burdett 4th Baronet (age 80) died. His grandson [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 27) succeeded 5th Baronet Burdett of Bramcote in Warwickshire.
On 21 Apr 1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts was born to Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 44) and Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett.
On 06 Aug 1837 Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans (age 59) died. Her step-grand-daughter Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 23) inherited the Coutts fortune of around £1.8 million (equivalent to £170,000,000 in 2021).
On 13 Jan 1844 [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett died.
On 23 Jan 1844 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 73) died ten days after the death of his wife [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett; he had refused food after she had died. His son [her brother] Robert Burdett 6th Baronet (age 47) succeeded 6th Baronet Burdett of Bramcote in Warwickshire.
In 1871 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 56) was created 1st Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex in recognition of her philanthropic work.
On 12 Feb 1881 William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts (age 30) and Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 66) were married. He by marriage Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex. There were no children from the marriage. Because of her husband's American birth a clause in her stepgrandmother's will forbidding her heir to marry a foreign national was invoked and Burdett-Coutts forfeited three-fifths of her income to her sister. The difference in their ages was 36 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
On 30 Dec 1906 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 92) died.
On 05 Jan 1907 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts was buried near the West Door of Westminster Abbey [Map]. Nearly 30,000 people had filed past her coffin before her burial. Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex extinct.
On 28 Jul 1921 [her former husband] William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts (age 70) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of William "Lion" I King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Philip "The Fair" IV King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Burdett 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 3rd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Walter
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Aston 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Magdalen Aston 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Willoughby Lady Aston
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 4th Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tracy 3rd Viscount Tracy 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Tracy 4th Viscount Tracy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leigh Viscountess Tracy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tracy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Leicester Devereux 6th Viscount Hereford
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Devereux 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Francis Burdett 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Sedley 2nd Baronet
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Savile
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 1st Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sedley Lady Burdett 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Father: Francis Burdett 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Jones of Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire
GrandMother: Eleanor Jones
Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Thomas Coutts
Mother: Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett
GrandMother: Susannah Starkey