. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. %. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbangewayb Pbintinq Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 358. Vol. XVII.] MAY 2, 1889. [Published Weekly.] (^tutorial, itniias, #r. No. III.—THE BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS. We should scarcely be justified in placing the lady whose portrait we give on this page amongst the ' eminent bee-keepers' of the day, but all will readily admit her claim to be considered eminent amongst bee-keepers; for from the time the Baroness Burdett-Coutts came into our midst she has un- wearyingly labou
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. %. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbangewayb Pbintinq Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 358. Vol. XVII.] MAY 2, 1889. [Published Weekly.] (^tutorial, itniias, #r. No. III.—THE BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS. We should scarcely be justified in placing the lady whose portrait we give on this page amongst the ' eminent bee-keepers' of the day, but all will readily admit her claim to be considered eminent amongst bee-keepers; for from the time the Baroness Burdett-Coutts came into our midst she has un- wearyingly laboured to sustain and develop the bee - keeping industry; and she has most felicitously been designated the ' Queen-bee' of our community. We feel not a little proud that the British Bee-keepers' Asso- ciation has for its President a lady who has for so many years occupied so unique and pro- minent a position in the history of the nation. The Right Honorable Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett- Coutts, was born on April 25, 1814. She is the youngest daughter of the late Sir Francis Burdett,Bt., and granddaughter of Mr. Thomas Coutts, founder of the well-known banking- house in the Strand. In 1837 she succeeded to the bulk of the property of Mr. Coutts, through his widow, once the fascinating Miss Mellon, who died Duchess of St. Albans. The power and responsibility of benefiting her fellow-crea- tures, thus conferred on her, the Baroness has wisely and conscientiously exercised in carrying out a multitude of projects which have had for their aim the welfare of the world at large. As a consistent member of the Church of England, her liberality has been on an almost unparalleled scale. Besides her contributions towards building new schools and churches in various parts of the country, Miss Coutts erected and endowed, at a cost of 30,000/., the handsome church of St. Stephen's, Westminster, with its three schools and parsonage, and more recently she has erected another church at Carli
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