BURDETT-COUTTS, RIGHT Hox. An (Bat:mass), English philan pist: b. 21 April 1814; d. London, 30 Dec.
1906. In 1837 she inherited much of the prop erty of her grandfather, Thomas Coutts, the banker, on the death of his widow, the Duchess of Saint Albans (formerly the actress, Miss Mellon). Besides spending large sums of money in building and endowing churches and schools, she endowed the three colonial bishop rics of Cape Town, Adelaide and British Co lumbia. She founded an establishment in South Australia for the improvement of the aborig ines, and established a fishery school at the Irish village of Baltimore (1887). To the city of London she presented, besides several hand some fountains, the Columbia Market, Bethnal Green (1870), for the supply of fish in a poor district. She also built Columbia Square, con sisting of model dwellings at low rents, for about 300 families. The home established by her at Shepherd's Bush has rendered great as sistance to many unfortunate women, and the People's Palace owes much to her generosity. In 1871 she was created a peeress in her own right as Baroness Burdett-Coutts. In 1877 she organized the Turkish Compassionate Fund, to relieve the sufferings of the peasants in Turkey, and in recognition of her services the Sultan conferred upon her the Order of the Medjidie, In 1881 she was married to William Ashmead Bartlett, who in 1882 obtained the royal license to assume her name.
William Lehman English philanthropist: b. in the United States in 1851, the son of the late Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, New England. He was graduated at Keble College, Oxford, in 1876, and married in 1881 Angela, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, whose name he assumed. As commissioner for the Baroness' Turkish Com passionate Fund he proceeded to the theatre of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877; and sub sequently largely developed her schemes for relieving Irish distress and aiding Irish fisher men. The food supply for the poor of London is a subject that has deeply interested him, and he has been instrumental in carrying through some useful acts of Parliament, notably the Hempstead Heath Act of 1885. He has repre sented Westminster in the House of Commons since 1885.