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 Baroness 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 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 (age 75). 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. Her estate was inherited by Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer (age 54), son of her sister [her sister] Clara Burdett, who adopted the name Coutts.

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.

In 1913 Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer (age 60) abeyance terminated 5th Baron Latimer of Snape. He was descended from John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape via Lucy Neville, Frances Cornwallis, Elizabeth Withipoll, William Withipoll, Elizabeth Withipoll, Frances Devereux, Frances Devereux, Robert Burdett 4th Baronet, [her grandfather] Francis Burdett, [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet and [her sister] Clara Burdett.

On 28 Jul 1921 [her former husband] William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts (age 70) died.

Royal Ancestors of Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts 1814-1906

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 22 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Philip IV King France

Ancestors of Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts 1814-1906

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 I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward 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 I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sedley Lady Burdett 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward 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