1860’s photo Baroness Burdett Coutts well loved involved, wealthy philanthropist

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1860’s photo of Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906), born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts. In 1837 she became one of the wealthiest women in England when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million (equivalent to £160,000,000 in 2019) Edward Burdett-Coutts spent the majority of her wealth on scholarships, endowments, aid to needy, public works, and a wide range of philanthropic causes. One of her earliest philanthropic acts was to co-found (with Charles Dickens) a home for young women who had "turned to a life of immorality", including theft and prostitution. The home was known as Urania Cottage. Edward VII is reported to have described her as, "after my mother, the most remarkable woman in the kingdom."