William Burdett-Coutts

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William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1851 – 28 July 1921) was a British Conservative politician, younger brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. Born in America as William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, his grandparents had been British subjects. After his father's death in 1861, he moved to Britain, his home for the remainder of his life.

He entered Keble College, Oxford in 1870 and subsequently graduated from Christ Church, Oxford.

Secretary to the philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts, he married her on 12 February 1881 and took her surname (but no title). The marriage was received with surprise (she was forty years older than he), but was happy, though childless. In 1885, he was elected Member of Parliament for Westminster, and when that constituency was abolished in 1918, for that of Westminster Abbey, which he held until his death in 1921. He had been made a Privy Counsellor earlier that year.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: William Henry Smith Lord Algernon Percy	Member for Westminster 1885–1918	Succeeded by: Constituency abolished
Preceded by: Constituency created	Member for Abbey 1918–1921	Succeeded by: John Sanctuary Nicholson