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Francis Burdett Thomas Nevill Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer (18 September 1852 – 8 June 1923) was a London solicitor, poet, librettist, and wealthy heir to the fortune of the Coutts banking family. He is now remembered chiefly as a patron and collaborator of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz.

Family history

His father was the Reverend James Drummond Money (d. 1875), and his mother was Clara Burdett (d. 1899). Clara was the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett (1770–1844) and Sophia Coutts (d. 1844). Sophia was one of three daughters of the wealthy banker Thomas Coutts. In 1875 Francis Money, as he was then named, married Edith Ellen Churchill. In 1881, his mother Clara's sister Angela Burdett violated the terms of the will making her the sole heir of the Coutts fortune, by marrying a foreigner (an American 40 years her junior). Seeing an opportunity, Clara and her son adopted the name "Coutts," as required by the will, and contested Angela's claims. A settlement was reached, and Angela received two-fifths of the income until her death in 1906, at which time Francis became the sole beneficiary.

  • Poems (1896)
  • The Revelation of St. Love the Divine (1898)
  • The Alhambra (1898)
  • The Mystery of Godliness (1900)
  • The Nutbrown Maid (1901)
  • The Poet's Charter (1902)
  • Musa Verticordia (1904)
  • The Song of Songs: a Lyrical Folk-Play of the Ancient Hebrews Arranged in Seven Scenes (1906)
  • The Heresy of Job with the Inventions of William Blake (1907)
  • Romance of King Arthur (1907)
  • Psyche (1911), poems
  • Egypt and Other Poems (1912)
  • The Royal Marines (1915)
  • The Spacious Times, and Others (1920), poems
  • Well (1922), a guidebook to the village of Well, Yorkshire
  • Selected Poems (1923)

Title

Francis Money-Coutts became the 5th Baron Latymer in 1913 when its 336-year abeyance was terminated in his favour by King George V.

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Sources

  • <cite id="Clark (1999)">Clark, Walter Aaron (1999). Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. </cite>
  • <cite id="Kidd">Kidd, Charles; David Williamson, editors (1990). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. New York: St Martin's Press. .</cite>