The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-21

Angela Georgina Burdett. with the
proviso that she should take the name
of Coutts.
1t soon became apparent that Miss
Burdett-Coutts leaned rather to phil
anthrOphy than to society. She is an
ardent church woman, and in 1850 built
the church of st. Stephen, Westmins-
ter, with parsonage and schools en-
downing the whole. At about the same
period she founded the colonial bish-
oprics at Capetown, Africa; Adelaide,
South Australia, and one at British CO.
lumbia. She further founded an instl-
tuition in South Australia for the edu-
cation of the aborigines. Turning her
attention to lettering the condition of
the lives of the poor. she selected the
district of Bethnal Green. and there
built block of model lodging houses
in Columbia Square. She also UNDER
took the admiralty contract for sup
plying the shirts to the British navy,
in order to afford employment for the
needlewomen of Bethnal Green. Her
next great enterprise was the building
and substituting of Columbia Market in
order to supply the poor with fish at a
cheap rate. The opposition of the Bill
lingsgate merchants finally rendered
this great undertaking abortive. the
baroness has benefited the poor and
outcast of her own sex, is the friend of
little children and of the animal crea-
ton, has helped the starving peasants
of Ireland, provided means for the
technical training of girls in domestic
economy, given funds for the topO-
graphical survey of Jerusalem, and as
sisted immigration schemes: while the
amount of her private charity it is i'm
possible to estimate. She has always
been warm educatonalist. and a lib
eral patrOness of art. In recognition
of her wide-spreading benevolence the
queen created Miss Burdett-Coutts a
peeress in 1871 by the title of baroness.
Amongst other honors. she has received
the freedom of the cities of London and
Edinburgh and the freedom and livery
of the Haberdashers and the Turner's
companies. In 1881 she married Ash
mead-Bartlett, who assumed the sur
name of Burdett- Coutts. and has been
a sympathetic promoter of the philan-
thropic enterprises of the baroness.
Two women have been created peer
esses in recognition of the public serv-
ices rendered by their husbands. Upon
the death of w. H. Smith, who made
large fortune with his book and news
stands in British railroad stations and
who was leader of the house of COM
mons during Lord Beaconsfields last
administration. his widow, the daugh-
ter of Frederick Dawes Danvers
was created Viscountess Hambeden
In the same year. 1891. the widow of
Sir John Macdonald. the premier of
Canada, was created Baroness Macdon-
aid of Earnscliffe Lady Macdonald is
the daughter of the Hon. Thomas j.
Bernard of the Jamaica privy council
Among the Scotch peeresSes Baroness
Gray, who succeeded on the death of
her uncle, the Earl of Moray, in 1895,
her claim being fully established a
year later by the house of lords. is
the Wife of ,McLaren Smith, who has
assumed the name of Smith-Gray, and
has her town house at The Bottoms
kensington. but her favorite home is
BroWnswood, Ennscorthy county,
Wexford, which she inherited from her
father, Captain Lonsdale Founder.
When the Baroness Gray came into the
property it was very small place. but
she was so attached to it's exquisite
view over Mount Lenster and the
Slaney valley that she converted it into
a commodious house. She loves horses
ana is devoted to outdoor life. The
baroness leads comparatively retired
life, for her original mind and dislike
of conventional usages led her to avoid
the busy round of society; it is only
those who are admitted to her ntima te
friendship who can appreciate her real
~ fine nature. Her private charities
are considerable. but she does not fig
ure in public philanthropy.
There are only two Scotch peerages
held by women at the present time,
and the second is the Barony of Kin
loss, created in 1902, and held by Mary
Morgan Grenville, daughter Of the third
duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
Upon his death in 1880 she succeeded
to the only one of his titles which
could descend to a woman, that of
Baroness of kinloss; the dukedom be-
came extinct. The barony was former
ly held by the Earls of Elgin and Allies
bury. but in 1S47 it descended through
the daughter of the fourth Earl of Ell
gin to the Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos and by that line to it's pres
ent owner. The Baroness kinloss was
the wife of the late Louis Ferdinand
Morgan, who assumed with her the
name of Grenville. She has estates at
Moreton Lodge Buckingham. and at
Doddershall, Aylesbury. The Baroness
klnlOss is a lady of the crown of India