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Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was an educational reformer and philanthropist who established the first industrial school in England, and was an active abolitionist.
Lord Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever. He died in Greece when she was eight. Lady Byron was anxious about her daughter's upbringing and promoted Lovelace's interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing her father's perceived insanity.
[5] [6] Lord and Lady Carmarthen were divorced on 31 May 1779. [4] Almost immediately after the divorce, Lady Conyers, as she was styled, married Byron. They had three children: Hon. Sophia Georgina Byron (18 July 1779 [7] – died aged two months; buried at Twickenham on 18 September 1779). [8] Unnamed son (died at birth, ca. 1780/81). [8]
Portrait of Ada Lovelace is an 1836 portrait painting by the British artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter depicting 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.
Lady Byron was one of 21 women of influence who signed Thomas Coram's petition of 1729, which led to the foundation of the Foundling Hospital. She is also known for sitting for the eighteenth-century artist William Hogarth (1697–1764), whose painting has been exhibited at the Foundling Museum , near Brunswick Square in London, as part of ...
Close to the centre of Athens, Greece, outside the National Garden, is a statue depicting Greece in the form of a woman crowning Byron. The statue is by the French sculptors Henri-Michel Chapu and Alexandre Falguière. As of 2008, the anniversary of Byron's death, 19 April, has been honoured in Greece as "Byron Day". [117]
Augusta Maria Leigh (née Byron; 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851) was the only surviving daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his first wife, Amelia, née Darcy (Lady Conyers in her own right and the divorced wife of Francis, Marquis of Carmarthen).
Isabella Howard, Countess of Carlisle (née Byron; 10 November 1721 – 22 January 1795), was a British aristocrat, writer, and traveller. On marrying in 1743 she became the Countess of Carlisle, and following her husband's death was styled the Dowager Countess of Carlisle.