The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-31
BURDETT-COUTTS DEAD.
BARONESS FAMOUS FOR CHARITY
WAS 81 YEARS OLD.


That Made Her Richest woman OF Her
bay In Engiand-wed nc Advanced Age
20 Ashmead-B Bartlett Good works.
Special Cable Despatch 20 TIE SUN.
LONDON. Dec. sO.-Lady Burdett-C outts
died at lO:s) O'Clock this morning. 1t 10
stated that her great fortune will go to her
nephew, Francis Money-C outts, under the
will OF the late Duchess Of 81. Adams, sec
ond wife OF the Baroness's grandf ather.
Mr.. Money-Coutts becomes automatically a
partner in the banking firm Of COutts a Co.
II is stated that what is left Of Lady
Burdett-C outts's money will not exceed
8 $4,000 o
Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-C outts
was born on April rs, 1914. at Foremark,
Derbyshire, England. She was the daugh-
ter OF Sir Francis Burdett, Baronet. Her
mother was a daughter Of Mr.. Thomas
Coutts, head of a banking house second
only in importance and u to the
Bank OF England. The bankers widow
married the Duke Of st. Adams after his
death and when she died in 1897 she made
Miss Burdett sole heir to the bankers
fortune. The girl %thereupon attached his
name to her own surname.
This fortune, which made her one OF the
richest women in the world, Miss Burdett-
Coutts proceeded to use in promoting
charities Of various sorts on a large scale,
chiefly in projects she herself determined
OF and worked out. She was a liberal
Church Of England woman and her bene-
factions to the Church we're munificent.
h built many new churches and schools
in poor districts throughout England. She
erected and endowed the Church Of st.
stephens, Westminster, with its three
schools and parsonage, and afterward
another church at Carlisle. She also en-
dowed the three olonial bishoprics of
Adelaide, Cape Town and British Columbia,
besides founding an establishment in Aus
tralia for the improvement OF the natives.
Her contributions to the cause of help
ing the fallen member of her own sex to
resume a better life we're notew orthy.
A sewing school in the Sums of London,
besides a large home there, resulted in
decisive aid being given to thousands of
young girls, victims Of the streets OF London.
She also had hundreds Of destitute boys
fitted out for the British Navy. She was
the means OF hundreds Of English weavers,
Scotch farmers and Irish fishing folk, who
we're dying Of starvation, brought on by
the severe winters Of the '6Os or by the de-
cline OF British trade, emigrating to the
colonies where an ample livelihood would
be afforded them. She bought up the Lon
don slum known as Scotia Gardens and built
the model tenements now known as Column
bia Square, which house 200 families at
low rents.
She also endowed a model farm in the
Bornean State of Sarawak 10 teach the
Dyaks farming. As a recognition of her
generosity in relieving the sufferings OF
Turkish peasants caused by the Russo
Turkish war OF 1877 she was later decorated
with the Imperial Turkish order of the
Medjidi and the Shafakat. In 1871 Queen
Victoria made her a Baroness. She was
admitted to the freedom of the city OF
London in 1872 and later to that of Edin-
burgh.
On February ~. 1881, she was married to
William Lehman Ashmead- Bartlett, who
was born in 1851 in Philadelphia. He re-
ceived the royal license TO Use the suTname
Burdett-Coutts He had been associated
with the Baroness in her charitable work,
and popular belief was that her marriage
was made somewhat with the idea OF as
surfing the continuation of her charitable
projects after her death by hands she had
trained and trusted. He alone. besides
collateral kin, survives her. He is a MEM
Der of Parliament and has represented
Westminster in the House of Commons
since 1895,