Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts NPG x4892

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Peter Paul Skeolan

Philanthropist; daughter of Sir Francis Burdett and heiress of the fortune of her grandfather Thomas Coutts, whose surname she adopted. Close friend of many leading writers, actors, politicians and scientists. Highly influenced by Charles Dickens, she spent much of her inherited fortune on projects for the education and housing of the poor. Burdett-Coutts was raised to the peerage by Queen Victoria in 1871.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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