Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts 1814-1906
Paternal Family Tree: Burdett
In 1793 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet [aged 22] and [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett were married. She brought £25,000 to the marriage.
On 21st April 1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts was born to Francis Burdett 5th Baronet [aged 44] and Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett.
On 6th August 1837 Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans [aged 59] died. Her step-grand-daughter Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 23] inherited the fortune of her grandfather Thomas Coutts, former husband of Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans, of around £1.8 million; equivalent to around £170,000,000 in 2021. She was the richest heiress in England. She changed her surname from Coutts to Burdett-Coutts.
Around 1840. Unknown Painter. Portrait of Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 25].
On 13th January 1844 [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett died.
On 12th February 1881 William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts [aged 30] and Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 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 step-grandmother's will forbidding her heir to marry a foreign national was invoked and Burdett-Coutts forfeited three-fifths of her income to her sister Clara Burdett [aged 75]. The difference in their ages was 36 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
On 30th December 1906 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 92] died. Her estate was inherited by Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer [aged 54], son of her sister Clara Burdett, who adopted the name Coutts.
On 28th July 1921 [her former husband] William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts [aged 70] died.
