William Burdett-Coutts
William Burdett-Coutts | |
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Member of Parliament for Westminster Abbey | |
In office 14 December 1918 – 28 July 1921 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | John Nicholson |
Member of Parliament for Westminster | |
In office 18 December 1885 – 14 December 1918 | |
Preceded by | William Henry Smith Lord Algernon Percy |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett 20 January 1851 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
Died | 28 July 1921 St Pancras, London, England | (aged 70)
Political party | Conservative |
Education | Cholmeley's School |
Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford |
William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (20 January 1851 – 28 July 1921), born William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, was an American-born British Conservative politician and social climber who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1921.
Life
Ashmead-Bartlett was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, the son of Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, and his wife Sophia Ashmead, daughter of John King Ashmead of Philadelphia. All his grandparents were British subjects and he was the younger brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. After his father's death in 1852 the family moved to England, and he was educated at Torquay and at Cholmeley's School, Highgate. He entered Keble College, Oxford in 1870 with a 1st Scholarship, graduating in 1875 with a BA (MA 1876). Ashmead-Bartlett was secretary and husband to the philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
He owned the Columbia Market (built in 1869 by Baroness Burdett-Coutts), and in connection with this, he built up a large fishing fleet in the North Sea, and a considerable trade in vegetables.[1] However, a proposed railway to the market was never built, and competition from Billingsgate Fish Market led to the closing of the market in 1886.
In 1877, he was Special Commissioner to
William Burdett-Coutts was first elected to
The Baroness died in 1906 and there were no children of the marriage. He was the executor and beneficiary of her will, and carried on much of her philanthropic work after her death.[3]
Burdett-Coutts died aged 70, in St Pancras, London, while in office, and a by-election was held to replace him.
References
- ^ a b Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1886, p.34
- JSTOR 25585322.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32175. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ "No. 31147". The London Gazette. 28 January 1919. p. 1364.
Sources
- Obituary, The Times, 29 July 1921