Leigh, Emily (Augusta’s daughter), 360, 362, 425
Leigh, Colonel George: racegoing, 43–4; absence, 56; claims bequest from relative, 91; wishes Annabella to leave Byron, 118; opposes Trevanion-Georgiana marriage, 163–4; financial extravagance, 164; locks up Libby (Medora), 170; death, 358
Leigh, Georgiana see Trevanion, Georgiana
Leigh, Marie (Medora’s daughter), 234, 244, 271, 275, 276n
Le Mann, Dr Francis, 92, 99, 103–5, 108–9
Leveson-Gower, Lady Charlotte, 56–7
Liddell, Maria, Lady (of Ravensworth Castle), 7
Lind, Jenny, 349
Linton, Eliza Lynn, 454
Lockhart, John Gibson, 136–7
Locock, Sir Charles: treats Ada, 250, 476; baffled by Ada’s condition, 273–4; on Ada’s ’mad eyes’, 275, 288; sceptical of mesmerism, 290; believes Ada curable, 368, 381; attends Royal Society dinner, 374; recognises seriousness of Ada’s illness, 379; predicts Ada’s imminent death, 385; and Ada’s wish to see Babbage, 409
London: Annabella first visits, 15–19, 27–8
Louis Philippe, King of France, 244, 345n
Lovelace, Augusta Ada, Countess of (earlier Byron; Annabella/Byron’s daughter): taught by Frend, 13; birth, 99–100; Annabella denies Augusta access to, 132; made Ward of Chancery, 141; speaks Italian and Spanish, 141, 156; Byron maintains interest in, 142–4, 229; character and manner, 143–4, 150, 152–3, 172, 192; temper as child, 144, 476; upbringing, 145; childhood letter to Lady Noel, 148–9; education, 148–50, 156, 172, 176; relations with mother, 149–50, 178–80, 217, 320; and father’s death, 151–2; adopts cousin George as brother, 152–3; reading and learning, 153; fondness for Miss Montgomery, 156–7; appearance, 157, 186; singing lessons, 157; concern for mother’s health, 158–9; continental travels as child, 158; plans to fly, 158–60; interest in astronomy, 160, 180–1; semi-paralysis, 161–3, 171; suffers from measles, 161; moves to London fringes, 163; activities during illness, 172; learns German, 172; Annabella reads Byron’s poems to, 173; horseriding, 176–7, 179, 197, 229, 245, 355; early sexual experience and attempted elopement, 177–8, 193, 198; defies mother, 178; presented at court, 179; interest in rainbows, 181, 375, 397; studies mathematics, 181–2, 186, 208–9, 218, 224–7, 245; meets Babbage, 182, 186–8, 190–1; meets Mary Somerville, 186; attends scientific lectures, 187; harp-playing, 192, 194, 238–9, 242, 250, 305; instructs Annabella Gosford in mathematics, 193–4; tours England on factory inspections with mothers, 193; passion for music, 194, 218, 238; witnesses discussion between Babbage and Mary Somerville, 194–6, 261; nervous reaction to strain, 196; pleads to continue study under Mary Somerville, 196–7; marriage prospects, 198; Mary Somerville’s regard for, 198; Mary Somerville proposes Lord King as husband for, 199, 202–3; marriage, 204; marriage relations, 206–8, 256, 289, 309–10, 317–18, 319–20, 387; Carpenter portrait, 208, 347, 459; pregnancy, 208; entertains at Ockham Park, 209–10; becomes countess, 210, 215; children, 211–12; capricious and negligent motherhood, 212–13, 216, 283–4, 290–1, 325; cholera, 212; electrical experiments, 212; weight concerns and eating problems, 212, 229; attempts peacemaking with mother-in-law, 213; founds new schools at Ockham, 214; portrait print sold, 215–16; favours son Byron (Ockham), 216, 228, 247, 342–3; acquires telescope, 218, 226; respect for Mary Somerville, 218–19, 226; learns patience from Mary Somerville, 219, 227; Augustus De Morgan coaches, 220, 224–9; secret meeting with Prandi, 222n; impetuousness, 224, 226; humility in learning, 226; essay on scientific faculties and the imagination, 227, 237; offers to assist Babbage, 229–30, 246; fanciful ideas and proposals, 230–1; knows little of Medora, 237; boasts to Woronzow Greig, 238; drifts away from husband, 238; interest in mesmerism, 239, 248–9; on Byron’s incest and Medora’s paternity, 241–2; visits mother in Paris, 242; meets Medora in Paris, 243–4; and Medora’s threat to be recognised as Byron’s sole heir, 245, 249; wild behaviour, 245, 249; plans secret visit to London, 247–8; plans singing career, 249–50; health problems, 250, 257, 261, 273–5, 283, 288–90, 293, 310, 316–17, 318, 364, 372, 475–6; hectic activities, 250; accompanies Miss Boutell to continent, 254n; and Medora’s departure for France, 255–6; offers to arrange marriage for Medora, 255; solipsism, 257, 275; translates and annotates Babbage’s paper on Analytical Engine, 258, 260–8, 271, 275–6, 373; invites Babbage to Ashley Combe, 259–60; foresees world of technology, 264; visits mother in Leicestershire, 268; and Medora’s seeking legal redress in Paris, 269–70; sends enquiries to Babbage, 271–2; correspondence with Babbage, 274, 333; and husband’s proposal to take over Babbage’s machine project, 277–8; shocked by Babbage’s preface to article, 277; Babbage makes peace with, 279; children’s education, 284–6, 338–9; relations with William Carpenter, 286–8; undertakes study of own body, 293–4, 300–1; Wheatstone proposes as scientific advisor to Prince Albert, 295–6; proposes collaboration with Faraday, 296–300; believed to be author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 300, 310–11; proposes study of the brain, 300–1; visits Crosse at Fyne Court, 302, 304, 306–8; irritates William with vagueness, 306; as subject of gossip, 308–9, 349; relationship with John Crosse, 309–10, 312–14, 329–30, 346, 349, 386–7; possible sexual frustration, 310; few published writings, 312n; growing independence, 312–13; home in Brighton, 313; will, 314, 388, 407; sees Thorwaldsen bust of Byron, 318; in carriage crash, 320–1; Crosse asks for financial help, 321–2; financial constraints and anxieties, 322, 329–30, 346–8, 350; at Horsley Towers, 326–8; borrows money, 330–1, 347; new dresses for Wellington’s Brighton visit, 330, 332; moves to Great Cumberland Place, London, 331; conventionality, 338; anxieties over son Byron, 342; and son Byron’s absence at sea, 343, 345; visit to Lake District, 346, 356n; gambling and bookmaking, 348, 354–6, 364–7, 372, 382–3; and Lovelace diamonds, 350; autumn tour in England, 351–2; mother’s demands on companionship, 351; visits Newstead, 352–4; considers moving abroad, 363–4; health decline afer gambling losses, 368, 371, 372; suffers from cancer, 368, 375, 379, 381–2, 385, 387–91; visits mother in Brighton, 371; on Byron lineage, 372; impending death, 372–3, 377, 388, 394; involvement in Brewster’s work on light, 374–6; conducts electromagnetic experiments at mother’s home in Brighton, 376–7; growing attachment to children, 377, 379; makes plans for Burrs’ ball, 380–1; debts, 381–2; handwriting analysed, 382; letter from husband authorising gambling without limit, 383, 387; pawns husband’s diamonds, 383–4, 386–8, 392–3; Henry Phillips portrait, 385; requests burial in Byron’s vault at Hucknall Torkard, 388–9, 398, 400; confesses relations with Crosse to husband, 391; death, 394, 475; family papers destroyed, 399; funeral, 400; memorial shrine in Horsley Towers, 402; insurance deceit, 403; posthumous dispute over letters to Crosse, 404–5; posthumous accounts of life, 443–6; correspondence with mother on incest and Augusta Leigh, 445; reputation and achievements, 466–7; ‘The Rainbow’ (poem), 397
Lovelace, Jane Crawford, Countess of (née Jenkins; William’s second wife), 441
Lovelace, William King, 1st Earl of (earlier Lord King): courtship and marriage to Ada, 199, 201–4; ill-treated by mother, 200–1, 283; marriage settlement, 204–5; nicknamed ‘the Crow’, 206; earldom, 210, 216, 328; dislikes obesity, 212, 229, 253, 475; as Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, 216–17, 420; ice-skating, 229; architectural and building projects, 239, 245, 251, 268, 289, 326–8, 463; lets off firecracker in son Byron’s face, 247; tantrums, 247, 254, 391; and Ada’s plans for singing career, 250–1; marriage relations, 256, 289–90, 306, 309, 317, 319–20; letter from Ada on translation of Babbage’s Italian paper, 258; inks in Ada’s computer program, 268, 271–2; meanness towards Ada, 268–9; travels to Germany, 268; family pride, 269; proposes taking over Babbage’s project, 277–8, 332; Carpenter writes to, 287; and Ada’s supposed authorship of Vestiges, 300; disappointed at Crosse’s conversation, 305; encourages Ada’s visit to Fyne Court, 305–7; exasperated by Ada’s vagueness, 306; articles on agricultural science, 312n; children’s upbringing and education, 315
–16, 320; concern for Ada’s health, 317; religious views, 317; Harriet Beecher Stowe describes as ‘man of fashion’, 318; social life, 318–19; blindness to social deprivation, 326; cedes control of Ockham schools to Annabella, 326; on Ada at Horsley Towers, 327–8; mother makes mischief for, 328–9; portrait, 328; financial difficulties, 329; welcomes move to London house, 331; and Ada’s book negotiations with Babbage, 335; relations with Annabella, 340, 390–1; at university with O’Brien, 343; and son Ockham’s naval service, 345, 420; Annabella lends money to, 347; professional ambitions, 347, 363; on autumn tour with Ada, 352–4; and suggested acquisition of Newstead, 357; and Ada’s gambling circle, 365; informs Annabella of Ada’s condition, 369, 371, 379; Annabella accuses of betraying Ada by neglect, 370; encourages Ada’s interest in Brewster’s scientific work, 374; money gift from Annabella, 382; involvement in Ada’s gambling, 383; letter authorising Ada to gamble without limit, 383, 386, 403; Ada pawns diamonds, 384–6, 388; and Crosse’s secret marriage, 385; and Ada’s cancer suffering, 389–91; Ada confesses relations with Crosse to, 391, 401; and Ada’s death, 395; accompanies Ada’s coffin to Newstead, 398; Annabella refuses reconciliation with, 400–1, 406, 426, 435; creates memorial shrine to Ada in Horsley Towers, 402; and Ada’s insurance deceit, 403; and daughter Annabella’s education, 418; and Ockham’s future, 419; accused of stealing Annabella’s letters, 436; refused attendance at Annabella’s funeral, 435; son Ralph buys out share of inheritance, 441; condemns Paget’s Blackwood article, 447; Harriet Beecher Stowe disparages, 449; silence during controversy over Augusta and Annabella, 458; death, 459; demands £80,000 for renouncing Wentworth estates, 459n
Lowestoft, 129
Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 462
Lushington, Sarah (née Carr): marriage, 145n; tours Lake District with Annabella, 145; friendship with Annabella, 167; told of Ada’s pawning Lovelace’s diamonds, 388
Lushington, Dr Stephen: and Annabella’s separation, 113–17, 174; Annabella tells of Byron’s shocking behaviour, 117–18; draws up document of retraction, 119; and Annabella’s loyalty to Augusta, 120; and Annabella’s public reputation, 127–8; marriage to Sarah Carr, 145n; suggested as Byron executor, 166–7; rents Ockham Park, 318, 326; Annabella visits, 339; cares for young Annabella, 363; and Annabella’s belief in William’s betrayal of Ada, 369; visits sick Ada, 381–2; at Ada’s death, 394–5, 399; aims to reconcile Annabella and Lovelace, 400–1, 406; attends Ada’s funeral, 400; on Annabella’s resolution at Ada’s death, 425; informed of Annabella’s death, 435; attends Annabella’s funeral, 436; on Byron’s boasting of sexual misconduct, 453
Lytton, Judith, Lady (Baroness Wentworth), 463–4
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, 118, 126–7
MacDonald, George, 428–30
MacDonald, Louisa, 428
Mackay, Charles, 452
Macmillan’s Magazine, 447
Mair, Arthur, 418
Malcolm, Dr, 355–6, 364, 365, 367, 403
Malta, 394, 420
Marchand, Leslie, 465
Markus, Julia: Lady Byron and Her Daughters, 466
Martineau, Harriet, 214, 285, 290, 426, 438–40, 448n, 449, 453
Mayne, Ethel Colburn, 170, 464
Mayo, Dr Charles, 175
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 222
Melbourne, Elizabeth, Viscountess (née Milbanke): told of Annabella’s arrival in London, 18; seeks match for Annabella, 21; marriage relations, 25; Judith appeals to for help, 32; and Annabella’s feelings for Byron, 36–7, 39–42, 46; as Byron’s confidante and correspondent, 37–8, 46, 49–50, 54, 62, 72, 164; and Byron’s Bride of Abydos, 54; and Byron’s relations with Augusta, 54–5; and Annabella’s engagement to Byron, 58–60; on Annabella’s temper, 63; Byron reports on honeymoon to, 73–4, 76; congratulates Annabella on saving Byron from suffocation, 73; optimism over Byron’s marriage, 76; chooses London home for Annabella, 81; Annabella tells of readiness to leave Byron, 97; enquires about Annabella’s impending separation, 115; on Annabella’s strained appearance, 131; and Byron’s marriage to Annabella, 416; letters from Byron, 460, 462
Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, 25, 210, 328, 336
Menabrea, Count Luigi: Ada translates paper on Babbage’s Analytical Engine, 260–7, 269, 271, 284, 294, 373
Mesmer, Anton, 239
mesmerism, 239, 248–9, 290, 476
Milbanke, Annabella (Anne Isabella) see Byron, Annabella, Lady
Milbanke, Judith, Lady see Noel, Judith, Lady
Milbanke, Sir Ralph see Noel, Sir Ralph
Mill, John Stuart: The Subjection of Women, 449
Milner, Emily, 14, 59
Milnes, Richard Monckton, 444
Minns, Jane, 64, 72, 77
Mitchell, Maria, 184n
Molesworth, Sir William, 245–6, 311, 412n
Montgomery, Hugh (Mary’s brother), 13, 18–19, 59, 174
Montgomery, Hugo (Mary’s nephew), 141, 152, 158, 292
Montgomery, Mary Millicent: friendship with Annabella, 13–14, 18–19, 26; spinal complaint, 24, 25–7; remains unmarried, 25; survives to old age, 28; travels abroad, 55; and Annabella’s engagement, 59; returns to England, 131; brings nephew Hugo to Ada, 152; Annabella stays with in Hastings, 156; accompanies Annabella on travels, 157; visits Acton House, 174; introduces Ada to Mary Somerville, 185–6; introduces Ada to Babbage, 187–8; life as semi-invalid, 198; suggests match for Ada, 199; condemns Augusta Leigh, 235; deceived by Medora, 236; Ada meets in Paris, 243 & n; raises money for Irish destitute, 323; visits Leamington Spa, 369; praises MacDonalds, 430; friendship with Anna Jones, 434; approves of Harriet Martineau’s proposed life of Annabella, 438
Moore, Doris Langley, 146, 461n, 464–5
Moore Place, near Esher, Surrey, 244, 327, 336, 338
Moore, Thomas: and Byron’s attachment to Augusta, 47; and Byron’s betrothal to Annabella, 58; on Byron’s ravishing Annabella on honeymoon, 72; letter from Byron on end of honeymoon, 76; Byron reports to on Annabella’s condition, 78; Byron praises Annabella to, 90, 119; seeks financial advice from Byron, 94; Byron complains of baby Ada to, 101; letter from Byron blaming self, 107; blames Annabella’s parents for Byrons’ marriage breakdown, 127; Byron describes Annabella to as ‘The Witch’, 136; Life and Letters of Lord Byron, 116, 126, 127n, 173, 416
Morgan, Sydney, Lady 183
Morrit, J.B.S., 125
Moulton Hall, North Yorkshire, 8
Mule, Mrs (cleaning lady), 81
Mulready, William, 10–11
Murchison, Sir Roderick and Lady, 188, 310, 318
Murphy, Mrs (Anna Jameson’s mother), 410
Murray, Amelia: Recollections, 444
Murray, John (publisher): payment for Byron’s Childe Harold, 42; Byron memoirs burned in premises, 72; shows bookplate print of Byron, 82; and Byron’s description of Annabella as ‘moral Clytemnestra’, 133–4; gives copy of Quarterly Review to Annabella, 134–5; told of Byron’s death, 143; presents Annabella with Byron’s works, 173; and Moore’s life of Byron, 174; Lovelace introduced to, 209; hears gossip about Ada, 308; and Babbage’s proposed biography of Ada, 408
Murray, John III, 318, 440, 452
Murray, John IV, 460–2
Murray, John VI (‘Jock’), 465
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: Byron and Sir Ralph Noel support, 88; Byron copies coach, 124
National Review, The: Annabella co-founds with Henry Crabb Robinson, 427
New York Mirror, 178n
New York Times, 245, 440
Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 325
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire: Byron’s mother’s death at, 31; proposed sale, 44, 57, 78; Byron spends Christmas at, 50; Captain George Byron acts as agent, 93; Byron’s body taken to, 151; sold to Wildman, 162, 216; Ada visits, 352–4, 356; Wildman restores, 353; Annabella suggests Ada acquire, 357; insecure future, 463
Newton, Sir Isaac, 217
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, 420
Nicholson family, 332
Nightingale, Florence, 325n, 332–3, 386, 398–9, 426
Nightingale, Parthenope, 398n, 399, 426
Nightingale, William (Florence’s father), 332–3, 352
Nightingale, William (of Ada’s gambling circle), 364–5
Noel, Alice, 424–5
Noel, Charles: as Annabella’s agent at Kirkby Mallory, 154, 233; Ada asks to find tutor for children, 284; trains Byron Ockham, 320; instructed to care for poor, 324; home in Leicestershire, 341; fondness for Ockham, 342, 393; stays with Annabella at Leamington, 369; attends Ada’s funeral, 400; pleads for Ockham’s return home, 420–1; given share of inheritance, 423; Realf works under, 424
Noel, Charles Jr, 437
Noel, Edward: brother Robert acts as trustee for, 154; Annabella plans to send to Greece, 174; schooling, 175; runs school in Greece, 217; Annabella quarrels with, 291; returns to England, 291n; lives near Leamington, 369; Annabella transfers Greek property to, 420; bequest from Annabella, 437; and publication of Annabella’s letters, 445
Noel, Fanny (née Smith), 157, 177, 179, 217, 291, 369
Noel, Judith, Lady (earlier Milbanke; Annabella’s mother): and Annabella’s childhood, 4–7; and brother Thomas’s first visit to Halnaby, 8; character, 9; social conscience and duties, 10; and Annabella’s introduction to London society, 18; takes waters at Tunbridge Wells and Leamington Spa, 25–6, 147; loquacity, 26, 113; concern over Annabella’s relations with Byron, 32, 45; in London, 34–6; visits brother at Kirkby Mallory, 55; on Annabella’s marriage arrangements, 59; meets Byron at Seaham, 62; and Annabella’s wedding, 68; on Annabella’s happiness in marriage, 75, 92; adopts name Noel, 84, 88; Byron invites to Seaham for Annabella’s lying-in, 90; financial setback, 92; illness, 100n; visits Annabella after birth of daughter, 100; invites Byron to stay, 101, 103, 108; and Annabella’s impending separation, 112–14, 121; on breakdown of Annabella’s marriage, 112; erysipelas, 112; at Kirkby Mallory, 114; wishes for court case, 128; condemns Mrs Clermont, 131; as godmother to Ada, 132; and Ada’s upbringing, 145–6; Annabella stays with after separation, 146; Annabella’s dependency on, 147; decline in old age, 147; Harriet Beecher Stowe meets, 432
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