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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.
Lady Byron visited Fellenberg's Hofwyl School in 1828, and sent two young cousins there as students. She published a pamphlet titled The History of Industrial Schools (republished as an appendix in Ethel Mayne's biography of Lady Byron) and was probably the author of the book What De Fellenberg has Done for Education, published anonymously in 1839.
Reverend Richard Byron (1724–1811) Charles Byron (1726–1731) George Byron (1730–1789) Frances is identified in John Faber's engraving after a Hogarth portrait of 1736, [5] made before her husband Lord Byron died on 8 August 1736. It was "through her second son John [that Frances was] the great-grandmother of Lord Byron, the poet". [6]
Eventually, Byron began to court Lady Caroline's cousin Anne Isabella Milbanke ("Annabella"), who refused his first proposal of marriage but later accepted him. Milbanke was a highly moral woman, intelligent and mathematically gifted; she was also an heiress.
The Countess of Oxford and her daughter, Lady Jane Elizabeth Harley (follower of John Hoppner) Among her children were: [2] [3] Lady Jane Elizabeth Harley (b. 2 March 1796, d. after 1843); married Henry Bickersteth, raised to the peerage as Baron Langdale. Edward Harley, Lord Harley (20 January 1800 – 1 January 1828).
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).
Lady Catherine Gordon (c. 1474–1537), Scottish noblewoman who became a lady-in-waiting in England Catherine Gordon (c. 1725–1779), daughter of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen Catherine Gordon (fl. 1770–1811), mother of the poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron , usually known as Lord Byron
Amelia Byron, Baroness Conyers, 12th Baroness Darcy de Knayth, 9th Baroness Conyers, 5th Countess of Mértola (née Lady Amelia Darcy; 12 October 1754 – 27 January 1784), known as the Marchioness of Carmarthen from 1773–9, was a British peer and a Portuguese countess. She is best known for eloping with John "Mad Jack" Byron, father of Lord ...