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DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. , Azure : semee of cross crosslets and three lozenges, or. Crrst. A wyvern, wings elevated, proper. 5>upportfrs, Two stags, proper, plain collared and chained, and each charged on the shoulder with a lozenge, or. Seat, Courtown-house, Gorey, (co.) Wexford, Ireland. Town Residence, 71, Eaton-square, S.W. Club, Carltoa. COTTRTOWN, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, James Thomas, 4th Earl of Courtown, b. March 2/, 1794; succeeded his father, June 15, 1835 ; m. 1st, July 4, 1822, Charlotte Albinia Montagu-Scott, daughter of the 4th Duke of Buc- cleuch, and by this lady (who d. 1828) had issue three sons and a daughter ; 2ndly, Oct. 29, 1850, Dora, daughter of the Right Hon. E. Pennefather ; and d. Nov. 20, 1858, having had issue from second marriage three sons. Her ladyship d. 185Q. BURDETT-COUTTS, BARONESS. (BURDETT-COUTTS.) ANGELA GEORGINA BURDETT-COUTTS, 1st Baroness, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bart., for many years M.P. for Westminster, by Sophia, daughter of the late Thomas Coutts, Esq., the eminent banker. Born April 25th, 1814. As- sumed in Sept. 1837 by royal license the additional surname of Coutts, on succeed- ing to the estates of her maternal grand- father after the death of his second wife, who married as her second husband the 9th Duke of St. Alban's. Has been prin- cipal partner in the well-known London banking-house of Coutts & Co. Since inheriting the property in question she has devoted herself to furthering works of charity, to benevolence, and to philanthropy ; and solely endowed the bishoprics at Adelaide in South Australia, and in British Columbia. She built and endowed, at her own cost, the handsome church and schools of St. Stephen's, Westminster, and has for many years been one of the largest and most constant supporters of our metropolitan hospitals, and other benevolent institutions ; and has founded schools, reformatories, penitentiaries, and model lodging-houses for the working classes, and erected a magnificent structure in Hethnal-green, known as Columbia Market, the cost of which latter exceeded 200,000. Brother tiring, Sir Robert Burdett, 6th Bart.; b. 1796; educated at Eton. Is a retired Col. in the Army, and a Magistrate and a Dep. Lieut, of Derbyshire. He claims the Baronies of Berkeley, Tyes, Latimer and Badlesmere. Seats, Ramsbury Manor, Wilts ; Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire ; Foremark Hall, Derbyshire. Sisters Unfit?!, Snsanah, m. 1830, John Bettesworth Trevanion, Esq. Clara Maria, m. 1850, The Rev. James Money, of Stoakam Park, Hampshire. Patroness of three livings, St. Stephens, V. Westminster ; Ramsbury, V. and Bayton, V. Wilts. Creation, Baroness Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield, in the county of Middlesex, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1871. arms. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, argent, a stag's head cabossed gules, between the attires a pheon azure within a bordure of the last, charged with four buck'es or, Cietts ; 2nd and 3rd, azure, two bars or, charged with three martlets gules, Burdett. Supporters, Dexter, a stag proper, gorged with a riband argent, pendant therefrom an escutcheon of the arms of Coutts ; sinister, a lion proper, pendant from a like riband an escutcheon of the arms of Burdett. Seat, Holly Lodge, Highgate. Town Residence, 1, Stratton Street, Piccadilly, W.