Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts

 Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, was the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), reformist MP, and Sophia Coutts, the daughter of Thomas Coutts, founder of the Bank of London. In 1837 she inherited his fortune of nearly £3m, vaulting her into the richest woman (and heiress) in England. She became one of England’s prominent philanthropists as well as a collector of art. She lived at her family’s estate at Holly Lodge in Highgate. She was close friend to both Charles Dickens and the Duke of Wellington. Burdett-Coutts never married, living for 52 years with her devoted housemate, Mrs Hannah Brown, her former governess. They spent part of the year at Brighton.  After Brown’s death in 1878, Burdett-Coutts married William Lehrman Bartlett, and American who was 38 years her junior.