The house was in the Italianate style of Thomas Cubitt (builder of Queen Victoria's Osborne House on the Isle of Wight), they would remain in the house until 1846.Ģ2nd September 1837 Ada gave birth to her second child, a daughter she named Annabella after her mother. He would later become the 12th Baron Wentworth (styled Viscount Ockham), he died unmarried and childless at the age of 26 in 1862.ĭuring 1837 William and Ada relocated to a house they had built at No.10 St.James Square, London (later renumbered to No.12). Worthy Manor would have alterations made and then became used as their summer retreat.ġ2th May 1836 Ada gave birth to her first child, he was named Byron in honouro of Ada's father. Their honeymoon was spent at Worthy Manor (built in 1799), a hunting lodge in Ashley Combe, Somerset. The English author Charles Dickens would also frequent Court while Ada was there.Ĩth July 1835 Ada now 19 years of age, married Lord William King-Noel (8th Baron King). to the 2nd and 3rd powers, and extracted the root of a Quadratic equation." Ada was fascinated with the machine and she used her friendship with Mary Somerville to visit Charles Babbage as often as she could.ġ834 Ada had started to attend various events and had become a regular at Court where the likes of scientists Andrew Crosse, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone and Michael Faraday would attend. During the month of June, Mary introduced Ada to the British mathematician Charles Babbage.Īfter meeting Charles Babbage, Ada described seeing the working prototype of the Difference engine (an automatic mechanical calculator) " We both went to see the thinking machine (for so it seems) last Monday. Ada became close friends with Mary Somerville, a tutor that she greatly respected. The affair was covered up by Annabella and her friends to stop a public scandal from damaging her name. In a letter written by Augustus to Annabella, he stated that Ada's skill in mathematics could lead her to become an original mathematical investigator and perhaps a first-rate eminence.Īn engraving of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace c.1839ġ833 Ada had an affair with a tutor and was caught by his relatives, who in turn contacted her mother.
She would slowly recover and by 1831 Ada would be able to walk again with the aid of crutches.ġ832 Ada was being tutored by the mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan. June 1829 Ada fell ill with a bout of measles leaving her paralysed for almost a year. Annabella wished her daughter to be unlike her poetical father Ada was kept away from poetry and was privately schooled in mathematics and science at Kirkby Hall under the supervision of William Frend, William King and Mary Somerville. Society at the time did not favour the wife in any separation, so Annabella would write to ask of Ada's wellbeing, asking her mother to keep the letters just in case they were needed to prove that she was a loving mother.Īda suffered with her health during her younger years, often headaches which obscured her vision. Shortly after the deed was signed on 23rd April, Lord Byron boarded a ship at Dover for the continent, he would never return to England, he would die of disease in Greece during 1824.Īnnabella would often leave Ada in the care of her mother, Lady Judith Milbanke at Kirkby Hall.
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Ada was Lord Byron's only legitimate child.ġ6th January 1816 Ada was barely a month old when George and Annabella separated, she was taken from Piccadilly Terrace in London to her mother's parents home at Kirkby Hall in Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire.Ģ1st April 1816 Due to English Law that gave the father full custody over children in the event of separation, George signed a deed of separation for Annabella to have full parental custody over Ada. George named his newly born daughter Augusta after his half-sister Augusta Leigh. George was looking forward to haveing a son and heir. Lord Byron was disappointed that his wife Annabella had given birth to a daughter. Her parents were the famous English poet Lord George Gordon Byron (6th Baron Byron) and Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, also known as 'Annabella' 11th Baroness Wentworth. Portrait of Ada by British painter Margaret Sarah Carpenter c.1836ġ0th December 1815 Augusta Ada Byron was born in Piccadilly, London.
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