Burdett-Coutts
ANGELA GEORGINA, BARONESS, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, born April 21, 1814. In 1837 she inherited much of the property of her grandfather, Thomas Coutts, the banker. Besides spending large sums of money in building and endowing churches and schools, she endowed the three colonial bishoprics of Cape Town, Adelaide, and British Columbia, founded an establishment in South Australia for the improvement of the aborigines, organized the Turkish Compassionate Fund (1877), and established a fishery school at the Irish village of Baltimore (1887). To the city of London she presented, besides several handsome fountains, the Columbia Market, Bethnal Green (1870), for the supply of fish in a poor district; she also built Columbia Square, consisting of model dwellings at low rents, for about 300 families; and the People's Palace owed much to her generosity. In 1871 she accepted a peerage. In 1881 she was married to William Ashmead-Bartlett (born in 1851, who in 1882 obtained the royal license to assume her name, and who, in 1885, was elected Conservative member for Westminster. She died Dec. 30, 1906.