Eleanora Atherton
Eleanora Atherton was born on February 14, 1782. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Eleanora Atherton
Eleanora Atherton (14 February 1782 – 12 September 1870) was an English philanthropist and heiress associated with Manchester during the late Georgian and Victorian periods. She funded churches, schools, hospitals, and charitable institutions across Manchester and Salford and became one of the wealthiest women in nineteenth-century Britain. Atherton inherited substantial wealth through the Byrom and Atherton families, including interests in Jamaican sugar plantations established through enslaved labour. Historians have identified her estate as part of the wider network of British colonial…