Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906), born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a nineteenth-century philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts.
In 1837 she became one of the wealthiest women in England when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million
following the death of her stepgrandmother, Harriot Mellon.
She joined the surnames of her father and grandfather, by royal licence, to become Burdett-Coutts.
Edward VII is reported to have described her as, "[a]fter
my mother, the most remarkable woman in the kingdom."
Henry Darbishire
Henry Astley Darbishire( 15 May 1825 – 1899) was a British architect, best known for working on philanthropic schemes – including those of Angela Burdett- Coutts – and was the architect for the Peabody Trust from 1863 until 1885, when he was succeeded by Victor Wilkins.
He was of Mancunian origin, the son of James Darbishire and his wife Mary Roberts.
He qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1856, and finally retired from practice in 1894.
Darbishire married Eliza Paget in 1858, and they had three children.
William Burdett-Coutts (promoter)
William Burdett-Coutts is the founder and director of theatre and comedy promotion company Assembly, one of the major venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival.
He was born in Zimbabwe, and began his career as a theatre director in Scotland in the late 1970s, before establishing the Assembly Rooms as a fringe theatre venue in 1981, leasing it from Edinburgh Council.
The venue has been referred to as the "National Theatre of the Fringe".
Burdett-Coutts came to operate the venue after he was too late to find anywhere else to stage the play he intended to bring to the Fringe, The Madman and the Nun.
He was working at the Old Vic at the time.
The Assembly Rooms on George Street had previously been home to the Festival Club, but they had vacated the building after finding it unprofitable to operate.
This left it available for Burdett-Coutts, and gave him space to host other shows.
Burdett-Coutts fought for the Assembly Rooms to remain a venue only building, against Edinburgh Council's plan to turn the ground floor space into shops and a restaurant.
Thomas Helmore
Thomas Helmore( 7 May 1811, in Kidderminster – 6 July 1890, in Westminster) was a choirmaster, writer about singing and author and editor of hymns and carols.
Helmore's father was a congregationalist minister( also called Thomas).
During the boy's childhood, the family moved from Kidderminster to Stratford- upon- Avon, where Helmore later trained his father's choir and taught in a school which his father had founded.
Until the age of sixteen, he was educated at Mill Hill School with his brother Frederick.
In 1837, he began his studies at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1840.
He was ordained in the Church of England in the same year, and took up a curacy at St. Michael's, Lichfield, where he was also a priest- vicar in the Cathedral.
Two years later, he was appointed as precentor and vice- principal at St. Mark's College, Chelsea, where the principal was Derwent Coleridge( son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
He soon came to be on friendly terms with his new colleague and, in 1844, he married Kate Pridham, who was Derwent Coleridge's sister- in- law.
His main duty at St. Mark's was to train the students to sing a daily unaccompanied choral service in the college chapel.
In the basic musical training, he was assisted by John Pyke Hullah.
The choir's repertoire grew to include such as the anthems of Gibbons and Byrd and the motets of Palestrina, Vittoria and Marenzio.
Helmore's growing reputation as a choirmaster led to his appointment in 1846 as master of the choristers in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, where one of his pupils was Arthur Sullivan.
He continued as precentor at St. Mark's, however, until 1877.
At this time in Anglican and Catholic musical circles, there was a growing interest in plainsong.
The sixteenth- century" Booke of Common Praier Noted" of John Merbecke was republished in 1844.
In the same year, Helmore's friend William Dyce brought out his" Book of Common Prayer with Plain Song".
Helmore himself resolved to research and contribute.
His aim was to create a setting which was authentic, but also well fitted to the text in tempo and accentuation.
In 1849 he completed" The Psalter Noted", the first of a series of similar works.
His" Primer of Plainsong"( 1877) became to be regarded as the standard work on the subject.
In 1853, the British ambassador to Sweden, G. J. R. Gordon, returned to England with a copy of the sixteenth- century song book" Piae Cantiones", which he presented to John Mason Neale, known for his interest in early music.
He, in turn, passed it on to Helmore whom he knew to be expert in the interpretation of the mensural notation in which the tunes were given.
Neale translated the texts into English or, in a few cases, wrote completely new texts.
He and Helmore published 12 of these tunes in that same year as" Carols for Christmastide", and the following year 12 more as" Carols for Eastertide".
The Christmas set included" Christ was born on Christmas Day" from" Resonet in laudibus Good Christian men, rejoice" from" In dulci jubilo" and" Good King Wenceslas" as completely new words for the spring carol" Tempus adest floridum".
Helmore immediately went on to publish a more substantial collection," The Hymnal Noted", where the texts were mostly Neale's translations from the Latin.
Helmore was appointed as executor of the will of Chauncy Hare Townshend and, on the latter's death in 1868, together with co-executrix Angela Burdett- Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett- Coutts, he undertook the responsibility of founding an elementary school in London, which was finally opened in Rochester Street, Westminster, in 1876.
His interest in plainsong led him to make several visits, in and after 1875, to the Abbey of Saint Gall in Switzerland, to examine an ancient manuscript supposed to be an accurate copy of a book on Gregorian chant written by Saint Gregory himself.
He died at his home in Pimlico on 6 July 1890 and was buried in Brompton Cemetery.
Francis Burdett
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770 – 23 January 1844) was an English reformist politician, the son of Francis Burdett and his wife Eleanor, daughter of William Jones of Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire, and grandson of Sir Robert Burdett, Bart.
From 1820 until his death he lived at 25 St James's Place.
Georgiana Morson
Georgiana Morson was a British social reformer.
She served as a matron for Urania Cottage, a house for what were then called" fallen women"( prostitutes) founded by Charles Dickens and Angela Burdett- Coutts, as well as the Foundling Hospital during the mid-nineteenth century.
James John Hill
James John Hill( 1811 – 27 January 1882), known also by his alias J. J. Hill, was an English landscape and portrait painter, known for his many rustic paintings and portraits of Lady Burdett- Coutts.
William Burdett-Coutts
William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett- Coutts( 20 January 1851 – 28 July 1921), born William Lehman Ashmead- Bartlett, was an American- born British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1921.
Ashmead- Bartlett was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, the son of Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, and his wife Sophia Ashmead, daughter of John King Ashmead of Philadelphia.
All his grandparents were British subjects and he was the younger brother of Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett.
After his father's death in 1852 the family moved to England, and he was educated at Torquay and at Cholmeley's School, Highgate.
He entered Keble College, Oxford in 1870 with a 1st Scholarship, graduating in 1875 with a B.A.( M.A. 1876).
Ashmead- Bartlett was secretary to the philanthropist Baroness Burdett- Coutts.
He owned the Columbia Market( built in 1869 by Baroness Burdett- Coutts), and in connection with this, he built up a large fishing fleet in the North Sea, and a considerable trade in vegetables.
However, a proposed railway to the market was never built, and competition from Billingsgate Fish Market led to the closing of the market in 1886.
In 1877, he was Special Commissioner to Turkey( along with Sir Francis de Winton) to administer the Turkish Compassionate Fund.
This had been initiated by the combined efforts of Baroness Burdett- Coutts, the Ambassador at Constantinople Sir Henry Layard, and his wife, for the relief of victims of the Russo- Turkish War( 1877- 78).
In recognition of his work, he received the Collar and Star of the Order of the Medjidie from Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
In 1879 – 80, he visited Ireland to assist in organising relief in the distressed districts and largely developed Baroness Burdett- Coutts' scheme for benefiting the Irish fisheries.
He married the baroness, who was 37 years older than he was, on 12 February 1881 and took her surname.
In 1883, he was on the Executive Committee of the International Fisheries Exhibition.
He was chairman of the Highgate Committee for enlarging Hampstead Heath.
William Burdett- Coutts was first elected to Parliament in the 1885 general election for the London constituency of Westminster, which had become a one- seat constituency from a two- seat one.
He remained the seat's MP until it was abolished in the 1918 general election, when he was elected for the new Westminster Abbey constituency.
He was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1921 New Year's Honours List.
The Baroness died in 1906 and there were no children of the marriage.
He was the executor and beneficiary of her will, and carried on much of her philanthropic work after her death.
Burdett- Coutts died aged 70, in St Pancras, London, while in office, and a by-election was held to replace him.
Verna Coutts
Verna Coutts( born 1931) is a former New Zealand cricketer.
Burdett Coutts
Burdett Coutts( 21 September 1919 – 17 March 2016) was a Singaporean field hockey player.
He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Question: Where was the father of Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1St Baroness Burdett-Coutts born?
Answer: Wiltshire