Evening star., 1923-06-25
Barony of Latymer Revived and Sixth
Lord Takes Seat in Upper House

| 10 assume the additional name. OF
Burdett-Coutts) her Coutts fortune
went. on her death, sorely against
her will but by virtue of the Duchess
of st. Adams last will and testam ent,
TO her sister Ciara's son, Francis
Money, nephew who had sided with
MS mother about the baroness mar
riage. and who had incurred her last
ing resentment
1t is true that the baroness had
made the most generous provision
for her American born husband. In
deed, she bequeathed to him every
tninE that she. could ALLEVIATE from
the Coutts estate. He was left with
fortune OF at least s150,00o a year,
which, when he in turn passed away
as member of parliament for West
minister was found to have been be-
queathed TO the children of his only
brother, the late Sir Ashmead Bart
lett. But Francis Money thus came
into the possession of all the Coutts
property enaaiied by the Duchess of
ownership Of Coutts' Bank. He was
member OF the bar. the author Of
several volumes of somewhat me-
dqocre poems OF a rather religious
and mystical bent; and with a marked
disposition for unobtrusive philan-
thropy. In parliament. first in the
house of commons and afterward in
the house of lords, he became known
as the principal defender and cham
pion of the. Royal Marine Corps. and
as their historian. He had also a pro-
nounced taste for genealogy, and it
was his studies in this connection
that led him as soon as he had in
herited the Coutts wealth to embark
on the extremely costly process of
securing, through the house of lords
cient barony Of Latymer in his favor
He was tall. slightly built, bearded
man. who was said to have borne a
striking resemblance to his grand
father, Sir Thomas Burdett.
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After protracted proceedings, which
are said to have cost in the neigh
borhood of 100000. the peerage case
was finally decided in Francis Money
Coutts' favor. For, according to the
terms of the duchess will. he had
been obliged to assume the name of
Coutts in addition to- his own
patronymio on succeeding to the
Coutts fortune. Subsequently, he had
his name, and on the strength of his
descent from the Nevills, secured the
permission from the crown to add
the name Of Nevill to those of Money
and Coutts.
During her long career as a phil
anthropist, old Baroness Burdett-
Coutts employed a considerable por-
tion OF her huge income in endowing
numerous bishoprics and churches in
the United Kingdom and in the
colonies. 1t is no exaggeration to
assert that during the near three
score years which elapsed between
her inheriting the Coutts fortune
from the Duchess of st. Albans, until
her. death. she must have spent sew
eral millions OF pounds sterling in
this fashion. But all these gifts and
erdowfnents were made conditional
on the distinct understanding that the
Church OF England would remain the
state church. Indeed. she. directed
in all the~deeds of gift and endow-
ments and confirmed the directions in
her will that in the, event of the
threatened disestablishment of the
Church OF England, every penny OF
money which she had thus disposed
of should revert, not to the Coutts
estate, but to her American-born
widower and to his heirs, the prih-
ctpai one being his favorite nephew,
Herbert Ashtnead Bartlett, now a
multirnillionaire and known as Her
bert Ashmead Bartlett Burdett- -Coutts.