Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex
Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex is in Baronies of England Alphabetically, Baronies of England Chronologically, Created Baronesses of England, Extinct Baronies of England.
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 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.