Heroes of the Faith: Angela Burdett-Coutts

At the age of twenty-three, Angela was stunned to discover that a family will had made her the sole beneficiary of £1.8 million – around £200 million today – and the control of Britain’s most prestigious bank, Coutts. Angela, now the richest woman in Europe, changed her name to Burdett-Coutts and considered what to do with her fortune. She decided that the money was a ‘trust placed on her by God’ and that, in the spirit of Jesus’ image of the Good Shepherd (John 10:1–21), she was called ‘to feed the sheep’. And, for the rest of her life, that is exactly what she did. <a rel="payment" href="https://canonjjohn.com/donate">Support this podcast</a>