1. William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, born William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, was an American-born British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1921.
10 Facts About William Burdett-Coutts
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William Burdett-Coutts entered Keble College, Oxford in 1870 with a 1st Scholarship, graduating in 1875 with a BA.
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William Burdett-Coutts owned the Columbia Market, and in connection with this, he built up a large fishing fleet in the North Sea, and a considerable trade in vegetables.
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William Burdett-Coutts married the baroness, who was 37 years older than he was, on 12 February 1881 and took her surname.
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William Burdett-Coutts was chairman of the Highgate Committee for enlarging Hampstead Heath.
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William Burdett-Coutts was first elected to Parliament in the 1885 general election for the London constituency of Westminster, which had become a one-seat constituency from a two-seat one.
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William Burdett-Coutts remained the seat's MP until it was abolished in the 1918 general election, when he was elected for the new Westminster Abbey constituency.
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William Burdett-Coutts was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1921 New Year's Honours List.
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William Burdett-Coutts was the executor and beneficiary of her will, and carried on much of her philanthropic work after her death.
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William Burdett-Coutts died aged 70, in St Pancras, London, while in office, and a by-election was held to replace him.