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420 BULMER at Sancton in that co. (3) Millicent, who m. Thomas Grey, of Barton in Ryedale, co. York, who was Hving in 1584. (4) Dorothy, who m. Ralph Williamson, of St. Helen's Auckland, co. Durham, who d. 10 Nov. 1594. (5) Bridget, who m. { — ) Farley. (6) Mary,(^) who m. ( — ) Morton. (7) Anne, who m., istly, Anthony Welbury, of Castle Eden, co. Durham, who d. there 5 Nov. 1596; she m., 2ndly (licence 1598), as 2nd wife, Gerard Lowther, afterwards knt.. Justice of the Common Pleas [I.], who d. s.p. 14 and was bur. 29 Oct. 1624, in Christ Church, Dublin. Among their representatives any hereditary Barony, that may be supposed to have been created in 1344, lost in 1537, and restored by implication in 1548, is in abeyance. BULWER See " Dalling and Bulwer," Barony [Bulwer), cr. 1871 ; extinct 1872. BURDETT-COUTTS BARONY. I. Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, of Stratton Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq., and of Holly Lodge, Highgate, I. 1 87 1. both CO. Midx., 5th and yst. da. of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., of Foremark, co. Derby, and of Ramsbury, Wilts (who d. 23 Jan. 1844), by Sophia, 3rd and yst. da. and coh. of Thomas CouTTS, of Westminster, banker (by his ist wife, Susan, da. of [ — ] Starkie), was b. 25 Apr. 18 14, in Piccadilly, and having under the will of her step-grandmother [ex parte maternd) Harriet, Duchess of St. Albans (previously 2nd wife and widow of the said Thomas Coutts), sue. on her death to considerable property, took by Royal lie. 14 Sep. 1837, the name of Coutts after that of Burdett, and was, 9 June, 1871, cr. BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS OF HIGHGATE AND BROOKFIELD, both CO. Midx., with rem. of that Barony to the heirs male of her body. On 18 July 1872 she received the Freedom of the City of London, a unique distinction for a woman. By the death of her only br., Col. Sir Robert Burdett, Bart., who d. unm., 7 June 1880, she became coh. to her parents. She m., 12 Feb. 1881 (she 66 and he 27), at Christ Church, Down Str., Piccadilly, Midx., William Lehman Ashmead Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett, afterwards Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett-Coutts, who on the ist inst. had taken the name of Burdett-Coutts before his patronymic of Bartlett, and who on 25 July following assumed the final name of Coutts in pursuance of the will, dat. 14 Mar. 1837, of Harriet, Duchess of St. Albans, widow of Thomas Coutts abovenamed. He is yr. s. of EUis Bartlett, of Plymouth, by Sophia, da. of John King Ashmead. Matric. 18 Oct. 1870, aged 19, at Oxford (Keble Coll.); Exhibitioner, 1871; B.A. 1875; M.A. 1880. M.P. (Conservative) for Westm. since 1885. She, who was principal (^) Hutchinson, ut supra, p. xxviii, calls the 6th da. Lucy, not Mary.