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  Noel, Louisa (née von Henniken), 205, 215, 259, 261, 338, 412n, 426n, 427, 437

  Noel, Mary, 69

  Noel, Mary Anne, 369, 424

  Noel, Sir Ralph (earlier Milbanke): father’s death, 8; wilful nature, 8; education, 10–11; philanthropy, 10; religious beliefs and practices, 10; as Whig MP, 10; fondness for theatre, 11; friendship with Annabella, 13; financial difficulties, 19, 92–3; and Annabella’s marriage prospects, 23–4; ill health, 26–7; meets Byron, 45; agrees to Byron-Annabella match, 62; at Annabella’s wedding, 69; Annabella’s relations with, 77; and Annabella’s marriage settlement, 84, 93; changes name to Noel, 88; offers Seaham to Byrons for retreat, 90; anxiety over Annabella’s condition, 95; playful letters from Annabella, 108; on Annabella’s impending separation, 112, 114–16; letter to Byron, 114–15; death, 153; likeness to Melbourne, 210

  Noel, Robert: Annabella chooses as family trustee, 154; interprets for Annabella on European tour, 156; studies phrenology in Dresden, 172; and Annabella’s proposal to send Edward to Greece, 174; Annabella gives £100 to as Ada’s wedding present, 205; introduces Anna Jameson to Annabella, 206; takes living mask of young Hester (Crauford), 215; Ada describes herself to as professional, 271, 284; and Annabella’s taking over younger grandchildren, 336; recommends Miss Wächter, 338; Robertson meets, 340; Anna Jameson ends contact with, 411; takes Robertson’s death mask, 422; shares inheritance with brother Charles, 423; returns from Dresden, 427; and Paget’s first Blackwood’s article, 447

  Noel, Revd Thomas, 7, 69–70, 128, 423

  Noel, Thomas Jr, 154, 157, 205, 423

  Noel-Baker family, 174n

  Norbury, Steuart, Countess of, 459n

  Norton, Caroline, 444

  Nugent, George Nugent, Baron, 199

  O’Brien, William Smith, 343–4

  Ockham: new schools, 214, 232, 326

  Ockham, Byron King, Viscount (Ada’s son): birth, 210; as mother’s favourite, 216, 229, 247, 284, 342–3; education and upbringing, 284, 316, 320, 338, 341, 342; relations with Carpenter, 315; rude behaviour, 320, 341; sea voyage to Tasmania, 338, 341, 343–4; appearance and character, 341–2; kept from sister, 342, 460; champions underclass against privileged, 344; transfers to Daphne, 350; in Chile, 363; letters from abroad, 378; life at sea, 378–9; returns home, 387; visits dying mother, 390, 393; disappears, 393; posted to Malta, 394, 420; surrenders and serves on HMS Victory, 394; Annabella supports, 417; future considered, 419–20; sent home for indiscipline, 420–1; Annabella takes in at Brighton, 421; manual work, 427; accepts Wentworth barony, 439n; death, 439–40

  Ockham Park, Surrey, 200–2, 204, 213, 226, 318, 326, 459n, 464

  Ohm, Georg, 295

  Orléans, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of, 179

  Orléans, Hélène, Duchess of, 345

  Owen, Robert, 166

  Oxford, Elizabeth Jane, Countess of, 40, 43

  Padwick, John, 382–3, 404

  Paget, John, 325, 446–50, 453–4, 461

  Pakenham, General Edward, 24

  Pall Mall Gazette, 451

  Paris: Annabella and Medora in, 231, 235–6

  Pascal, Blaise, 189n Peacock, George, 225, 227

  Pearce family, 319–20

  Peel, Sir Robert, 195, 260

  Perkins, Mary Foote, 432

  Philips, Sir George, 202–3

  Phillips, Henry Wyndham, 385

  Phillips, Thomas: portrait of Byron in Albanian costume, 82, 145, 199, 347, 385, 459

  Piccadilly Terrace, London, 81, 93

  Plana, Count Giovanni di, 222–3

  Pontivy, Brittany, 234

  Portsmouth, John Charles Wallop, 3rd Earl of, 52, 60, 65, 75, 104, 171

  Portsmouth, Mary Anne, Countess of (née Hanson), 52, 60, 75

  Prandi, Fortunato, 222

  Prescott, William: The History of the Conquest of Mexico, 349

  Prince Leopold (yacht), 166

  Prothero, Rowland, 460–2, 465

  Pugin, Augustus, 327

  Quarterly Review, 13, 98, 452

  Queensberry, William Douglas, 4th Duke of, 81

  Quetelet, Adolphe, 374, 376

  rainbows, 181, 375, 397

  Rathbone, Elizabeth, 324–5, 446

  Rawdon, Bessy, 35, 37

  Realf, Richard, 423–5

  Reed, Henry Hope, 409

  Rees, Michael, 443n

  Reformers’ Memorial, Kensal Rise, 10, 464

  Reichenbach, Carl Ludwig, Baron von, 312n

  Reid, Elizabeth Jesser, 426, 431, 438

  Reigate, Surrey, 360–1, 461

  Repton, Humphry, 6

  revolutions of 1848, 324

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 5

  Robertson, Revd Frederick: relations with Annabella, 340, 356, 358– 61, 379, 415, 421–2; death and funeral, 421; Annabella proposes biography of, 422

  Robinson, Henry Crabb, 422–3, 425, 427, 430–1, 451, 461

  Rogers, Samuel, 43, 72

  Romilly, Sir Samuel, 113, 141

  Rood, Susan, 92

  Ross, Revd Alexander, 445

  Rosse, Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of, 327

  Royal Society: Ada seeks access to, 301

  Ruskin, John, 418

  Russell, John Scott, 427

  Rutter, William, 376–7

  Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de: Justine, 104

  St Aulaire, Comtesse, 273

  Saturday Review, 454

  Scarsdale, Nathaniel Curzon, 3rd Baron, 336

  Scott, Sir Walter: fame, 14; on Byron’s irritability, 73; quotes Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ to Byron, 94n; teases Byron, 125; praises Byron in review of Childe Harold, 134–5

  Seaham Hall, Co. Durham: Hoppner’s portrait of Annabella at, 5; Annabella’s fondness for, 9; Byron invited to visit, 53, 56; Byron meets Annabella at, 61–5; Annabel attempts to save, 65; and Annabella’s wedding, 68; Byron’s near suffocation at, 72; Annabel returns to, 75; reacreations and games at, 75–6; Annabel stays at during Byron’s absence, 78; Byron and Annabella visit, 90; Annabella learns to be sold, 147; now a spa, 463

  Seaham village, Co. Durham, 9–10, 55, 69; Annabella sets up new school, 131, 147

  Sedgwick, Adam, 310–11

  Sedgwick, Catherine, 292

  Shelley, Mary, 128, 142, 264, 301n, 427n; Frankenstein, 301, 303–4

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 128, 131–2, 142, 323, 443

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 94–5 Shuttleworth, Janet, 249

  Siddons, Harriet (Mrs Henry): establishes school in Edinburgh, 146; and Annabella’s visit to Hastings, 147; accompanies Annabella on European tour, 157; recommends Fellenberg to Annabella, 158; and Annabella’s purchase of Fordhook, 174; and Annabella’s recourse to religion, 180n; Annabella praises Lord King (Lovelace) to, 203, 297; Annabella admits to wellbeing, 206; and Annabella’s concern for teachers’ status, 232; and Annabella’s popular reception in Kirkby Mallory, 233; and Annabella’s concern for Medora, 244; death, 292

  Siddons, Lizzie (Mrs Arthur Mair), 146, 165n, 167, 192–7

  Siddons, Sarah, 15, 35, 116, 146

  Silsbee, Edward, 457

  Singer, G.S., 303

  Singh, Duleep, 350n

  Six Mile Bottom, near Cambridge: Augusta’s home in, 44, 47, 63; Byron visits, 66, 78, 91; Annabella stays at, 78–80

  slavery: abolition, 430–1

  Smith, Charles (‘Carlo’), 177n

  Smith, Fanny see Noel, Fanny

  Smith, Julia, 382, 400, 438

  Somerville, Martha and Mary (Mary’s daughters), 183, 209–10, 219

  Somerville, Mary: Ada meets, 182–3, 186; qualities and achievements, 183–5; teaches Ada mathematics, 186, 194, 196, 218–19; and Annabella’s visit to Babbage, 191–2; letter from Ada on Babbage’s machine, 192; discussion with Babbage, 194–5, 261; regard for Ada, 198; proposes Lord King as husband for Ada, 199, 201–2; Ada discusses sexual life with, 208; spends Christmas at Ockham Park, 209; Ada reveres, 218–19, 226; organises new telescope for Ada, 218, 226; counsels patience to Ad
a, 219, 224; moves to Italy, 219, 223, 363; translates Laplace, 262; compliments Ada on Babbage article, 293; instructed not to burn Annabella’s letter, 408; letter from Annabella on Babbage, 408–9; young Annabella visits in Florence, 419; On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 185, 187, 297

  Somerville, William, 184, 186, 209, 219

  Sontag, Henriette, 349

  Sopwith, Sir Thomas, 463

  South, Sir James, 367

  Southey, Robert, 303

  Sowerby, James, 19

  Sparrow, Lady Olivia, 129

  Staël, Anne Louise Germain Necker, Baronne de, 257, 423

  Stamp, Charlotte (governess), 156, 158, 160, 338

  Stephen, Sir Leslie, 457–8, 462

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher: and Annabella’s relations with Byron, 62n, 137; childhood reading of Byron’s ‘Fare Thee Well’, 125; describes Lovelace as ‘man of fashion’, 318; early connection with Annabella, 325n; at London party, 422; visits to England, 431–5; knows of and reveals Byron’s incest, 433, 449–51; article defending Annabella (‘True Story’), 447–51; on Ada, 466; Dred, 432; Lady Byron Vindicated, 449–51; Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 431–2

  Surrey Institution, Blackfriars, 187

  Sutherland, Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 432

  Swan Walk, Chelsea, 456

  Swift (ship), 341, 343–5

  Tablet, The (journal), 451

  Taillefer, Elie (Medora’s son), 276n

  Taillefer, Georges, 276

  Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 179

  Tamworth, Sophia (Sophy), Viscountess (née Curzon): marriage, 4, 13; on Annabella’s upbringing, 7; inheritance from brother, 7; and Mrs George Lamb, 23; Annabella stays with, 42–3; Annabella’s devotion to, 153; death, 335–6

  Taunton Courier, 302

  Taylor, Richard, 258, 261, 264, 275, 377

  Telford, Thomas, 187

  Temple Bar (magazine), 445, 452

  Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron, 151

  Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair, 323

  Thomas, John, 238, 329

  Thorwaldsen, Bertel, 317–18

  Ticknor, George, 88–90, 176, 206

  Tower, Ernest, 422n Tower, Isabella, 13, 422n

  Trevanion, Georgiana (née Leigh; Augusta’s daughter), 44, 83, 163, 165, 169, 171 & n, 234

  Trevanion, Henry: marriage to Georgiana Leigh, 162–3, 265; deceives Annabella and Augusta, 164; edits Byron’s letters, 164; affair and children with Medora Leigh, 169–70, 235, 275; in France, 171, 234; and Annabella’s support for Medora, 235; Medora lies about, 236

  Tryon, Lady Winifred, 463

  Turin: scientific conference (1840), 222–3

  Turing, Alan, 373

  Turner, William, 177n, 193

  Unitarianism, 10, 284, 285, 317

  United States of America: slavery and abolitionism in, 430–1, 439

  Vanloo, Catherine, 8

  Varley, Cornelius, 151

  Victoria, Queen, 216, 343

  Victory, HMS, 394

  Villiers, Theresa, 57, 83, 118, 134, 237, 358, 389

  Voltigeur (racehorse), 348, 354–5

  Voysey, Charles, 456

  Wächter, Miss (young Annabella’s governess), 338–9, 342, 379–80

  Wallace, William, 189

  Wallis, Revd Richard, 10, 71

  Watt, James: steam engine, 190

  Watts (dancing master), 3

  Webb, Mary, 432

  Wedderburn Webster, Lady Frances, 48, 49n

  Weekes, W.H., 304, 311

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 179, 195, 330, 340

  Wentworth estates, 418

  Wentworth barony, 439n

  Wentworth, Ada Mary King-Noel (Molly; Ralph’s daughter), 14th Baroness, 455, 463

  Wentworth, Fannie, Lady (née Heriot; Ralph’s wife), 447, 455–6

  Wentworth House, 456, 464

  Wentworth, Judith Anne Dorothea King, 16th Baroness, 455, 463–4

  Wentworth, Mary, Lady (née Stuart-Wortley; later Countess of Lovelace; Ralph’s second wife), 456, 460, 461n, 462

  Wentworth, Mary, Viscountess (née Ligonier), 7–8, 55

  Wentworth, Ralph Gordon King, 13th Baron (later 2nd Earl of Lovelace; Ada’s son): birth, 211; upbringing and education, 315–16, 336, 363, 376, 418; sent to Hofwyl, 337; separated from sister, 342; rejoins family after brother’s departure, 343; letter from brother in Chile, 345; spends Christmas 1850 with mother, 363; Ada’s concern for, 372n; scarlet fever, 377–8, 379; on effect of Annabella’s harsh letters to Lovelace, 401; Annabella praises, 417; restrictions on, 418–19; relations with uncle Peter Locke King, 419; inheritance from grandmother, 436–7; instructed to add Noel and Milbanke to surname, 437; prevents Harriet Martineau’s proposed biography of Annabella, 440; succeeds to Wentworth barony, 440; retrieves mother’s papers and plans published account of grandparents’ marriage, 441–2; and posthumous writings on Annabella, 444; acquires letters between Ada and Lady Bron, 445; marriage to Fannie, 447; reads Harriet Becher Stowe’s article on Annabella, 447–8; defends grandmother’s reputation, 451, 457–8; birth of daughter Ada Mary, 455; concern about family papers, 456–7; second marriage (to Mary Stuart-Wortley), 456; and father’s difficulties over estates and property, 459n; withdraws from editing Byron’s letters, 460; death, 461; Astarte, 436, 458n, 460–21; Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs, 458

  Wentworth, Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount: leaves property to sister Judith, 7; as Annabella’s prospective benefactor, 19–20, 84; death, 83–4, 88; grandchildren disinherited, 154

  West, Dr, 390

  Westminster Review, 311–12

  Wharton & Ford (solicitors), 93, 331

  Wheatstone, Charles: Ada discusses science with, 246, 250, 279, 300; attends mesmerism meeting, 248; and Ada’s translation of Italian paper, 258, 261–2; supports Ada in dispute with Babbage, 277; encourages Ada, 279, 294, 301; inventions, 295; measures electrical usage (‘the Wheatstone bridge’), 295; suggests Ada as science advisor to Prince Albert, 295; praises Ada to Faraday, 297; Ada corresponds with, 349; attends Royal Society dinner, 374

  Whewell, William: on Mary Somerville, 187; tutors Woronzow Greig and Lord King, 199; friendship with De Morgan, 224; grants place in Wren Library for Byron statue, 318n; Bridgewater Treatise, 180–1, 186, 218

  White, Joseph Blanco, 325

  Wilberforce, William, 233

  Wildman, Colonel Thomas, 162, 352–3, 357, 388, 400

  Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner, 248–9, 380

  William IV, King of Great Britain, 176, 179

  Wilmot, Robert, 119–20, 128

  Wilson, John, 416n

  Wilson, Mary, 330, 334–5, 350, 356, 367, 382–3, 388, 407–8

  Wilson, Stephen, 350, 407

  Woburn Park, 201, 212–13, 463

  Wolfram, Stephen, 267

  Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 449

  Wordsworth, Christopher, 327

  Wordsworth, William, 302

  Wyndham, Henry, 164, 170

  Young, Edward: Night Thoughts, 11

  Zetland, Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of, 348, 354–5, 412n

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