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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications ...
Ada Byron Milbanke was the only acknowledged child of the Right Honourable Ralph Milbanke, Baron Wentworth and later Earl of Lovelace, the grandson of the poet Lord Byron, and his first wife Fannie Heriot. [1] [2] She was named after her paternal grandmother, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, mathematician and pioneer of computer programming.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Lovelace is a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname. Ada Lovelace (1815–1852 ...
Portrait of Ada Lovelace is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the British artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter, from 1836. It depicts the mathematician Ada Lovelace . Lovelace was the only daughter of the poet Lord Byron and his estranged wife, Lady Byron , and was raised by her mother.
William was subsequently made the 1st Earl Lovelace, and the couple had three children, Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham and 12th Baron Wentworth; Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth, who brought the Arabian horse to England; and Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace. Ada amassed considerable gambling debts [citation needed] before dying ...
Sophia, try as she might, did not warm to Ada. Ada was writing to Arabella in 1830, while her mother put together a team of her contacts who might take some responsibility for Ada. The physician William King and Arabella became involved. [18] According to her mother, Ada had an "argumentative disposition", and she wished Arabella to change it. [19]
Shortly before her death in 1917, Lady Anne inherited the Wentworth title after her niece, Ada King-Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth, died childless.Wilfrid, always short of money, made a number of attempts to get Lady Anne to sign control or ownership of her portion of Crabbet to him, going so far at one point as to alienate Judith and her mother to the point that Lady Anne disinherited ...
He was born at 10 St. James's Square, London on 2 July 1839, the second son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. His maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Byron, Baroness Wentworth, 11th holder of the barony of Wentworth.