3-071-077 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Mr. W. L. Ashmead Burdett-Coutts Bartlett, 1881. Our Portraits of Lady Burdett-Coutts and her husband are from photographs; the former is one by the London Stereoscopic Company. That of Mr. W. L. A. Burdett-Coutts Bartlett was taken by Mr. Van der Weyde's Electric Light process, in Regent-street...Miss Burdett-Coutts...was known and greatly esteemed for the generous use that she made of her wealth, especially in London. In June, 1871, probably as a token of the Queen's regard for one so eminently kind and charitable, a Peerage was conferred upon this wealthy and popular lady. She is coheiress, with Mrs. Money-Coutts, of the ancient baronies of Scales, Latimer, and Badlesmere...Mr. W. Ashmead-Bartlett has, for some years past, it is understood, been accustomed to render active assistance to Lady Burdett-Coutts in the business of dispensing her extensive charitable gifts and loans...The London Gazette of Monday last contains an official announcement that he has now applied for and obtained Royal license to assume the name of Burdett-Coutts, and he will, therefore, in future be known as Mr. Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.