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

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