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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness (UK, 1871 - 1906)

Creation: let.pat. 9 June 1871

Extinct: 30 Dec 1906

Family name: Burdett-Coutts

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Arms:

Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent a Stag's Head erased Gules between the attires a Pheon the whole within a Bordure embattled Azure charged with four Buckles Or (Coutts); 2 and 3, Azure two Bars Or each charged with three Martlets Gules (Burdett)

Supporters:

Dexter: A Stag proper gorged with a Riband Argent pendent therefrom an Escutcheon of the arms of Coutts;  Sinister: A Lion proper pendent from a like Riband an Escutcheon of the arms of Burdett

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Angela Georgina [Burdett later Burdett-Coutts], Baroness Burdett-Coutts

5th dau. of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt., by his wife Sophia Coutts, 3rd dau. and cohrss. by his first wife of Thomas Coutts, of Westminster, banker

born

25 Apr 1814

mar.

12 Feb 1881 Rt Hon William Lehman Ash Bartlett later Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett later Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett-Coutts, Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Westminster 1885 (b. c. 1854; d. 28 Jul 1921), 2nd son of Ellis Bartlett, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, by his wife Sophia Ashmead. dau. of John King Ashmead

died

s.p. 30 Dec 1906

created

9 Jun 1871 Baroness Burdett-Coutts, of Highgate and Brookfield both in the County of Middlesex, with remainder to the heirs male of her body

note

inherited considerable property from her step-grandmother, Harriet, Dowager Duchess of St Albans 1837; took the additional name of Coutts by Royal Warrant 1837; Principal Partner in the banking house of Coutts & Co; Freeman of the City of London 1872; on the death of her brother, Col Sir Robert Burdett, 6th Bt., in 1880 she and her two sisters became co-heiresses to the Baronies of Scales, Latimer and Badlesmere

On the death of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts the Barony of Burdett-Coutts became extinct.

 First written 31 Jul 2006

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