

The uncertainty of the situation was finally put to rest with the death of Lord Byron in 1824. The custody of Ada remained an unsettled issue. The separation was a brave, if risky, remedy in a society which rarely recognized the rights of wives. A few months after Ada's birth, Lady Byron fled with her daughter to the home of her parents.
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Conversely, Anne Milbanke was a woman of strict social convention, with a predilection for self-righteousness.īyron's early dissatisfaction with the marriage manifested itself in the torrent of abuse which he unleashed upon his wife. Byron, the fiercely temperamental poet, was an unstable personality who adapted poorly to the constraints of married life. From the outset, the marriage of Ada's parents had been a stormy one. Named after Byron's infamous half-sister Augusta Leigh, the child was known within the family simply as Ada. George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron and Anne Milbanke had been married slightly over a year when, on December 10, 1815, their only child Augusta Ada was born. Menabrea, of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers: With Copious Notes by the Translator," in Scientific Memoirs (R. "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq.
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May 12, 1836) Anne Isabella Blunt (1837–1917) Ralph Gordon Noel King Milbanke, 2nd earl of Lovelace (July 2, 1839–1906).Īnne Isabella Milbanke and Lord Byron separated (January 15, 1816) Lord Byron left England (April 25, 1816) Charles Babbage invented the Difference Engine (1822) Lord Byron died at Missolonghi, Greece (April 19, 1824) Lady Byron and Ada undertook a grand tour of Europe (1826–28) Ada, unable to walk after a severe attack of the measles (May 1829), recovered only gradually over a period of four years eloped briefly with her tutor (1832) met Charles Babbage (June 5, 1833) met Mary Somerville (1834) suffered a nervous breakdown (1835) Lord King elevated to the earldom of Lovelace (June 30, 1837) hired Augustus de Morgan as a tutor (June 1840) earl of Lovelace appointed Lord Lieutenant of Surrey (August 11, 1840) publication of Luigi Federigo Menabrea's memoir on the Analytical Engine (October 1842) publication of Ada's translation of Menabrea's memoir with annotations (August 13, 1843) led gambling confederacy and suffered financial losses (1851) after a series of haemorrhages, diagnosed with cervical cancer (1851). Born Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815, at Piccadilly Terrace, London, England died on November 27, 1852, in England buried in the Byron vault at Hucknall Torkard church, near Newstead Abbey, the Byron ancestral home daughter of Anne Isabella Milbanke (1792–1860) and George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (the poet) educated by Lady Byron, governesses, tutors, and self-study married Lord William Noel King, later earl of Lovelace, on Jchildren: Byron Noel (b. Name variations: Lady Lovelace countess of Lovelace Augusta Ada Byron.

Lovelace, Ada Byron, Countess of (1815–1852)Įnglish mathematician and inventor of computer programming.
