Angela Georgina Burdett, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1837)
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1837–1906)
1814–1906
Heiress and philanthropist. Daughter of Sir Francis Burdett (ODNB). Assumed the additional surname of Coutts on inheriting a share in the London banking firm Coutts in 1837. Endowed two geological scholarships at Oxford University in 1861. Presented Wilhelm Philipp Schimper’s herbarium of mosses to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1880. Patroness of a wide range of charities.
Sources
Nature, 8 July 1880, p. 228
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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