Order for the Burial of the Dead – In Memoriam : Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, 1814-1906

Elegant 14pp booklet in stiff, glossy card wrappers, cord bound. Printed on handmade paper with deckled edges, red and black text, gilt lettering on front, red ruled page borders. (Covers a little chipped along spine, with minor loss at spine head, slightly discoloured at edges, internally neat and fresh). With an admission ticket, no 138, to the South Transcept of the Abbey for the service laid in (lightly chipped at corners). The Order of Service for the funeral at Westminster Abbey of Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906) on 5 January 1907. Baroness Burdett-Coutts was a philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and granddaughter of banker Thomas Coutts. Edward VII reportedly described her as, ‘[a]fter my mother, the most remarkable woman in the kingdom’; she was widely proclaimed as the richest heiress in England, although later in life she sacrificed a good part of her fortune to marry an American many years her junior. She was the first woman to be granted the freedom of the cities of London and Edinburgh.