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Crosse, Mary Anne (née Hamilton), 303
Crosse, Robert, 305, 367
Crosse, Susan (née Bowman), 321
Cruickshank, George, 125
Cruickshank, Isaac: The Separation (sketch), 125
Cunningham, Revd Francis, 129
Cunningham, Revd William, 129–30
Currie, Henry, 330–1
Currie, William, 217, 239
Curzon, Sophia Caroline, 8
D’Aguilar, Colonel George, 166–7
Daily News, 425, 451
Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of, 350n
Dallas, Robert, 42
Daphne, HMS, 344, 350, 378
Darnell, Revd William, 24, 26, 59
Darwin, Charles, 293
Davison, Flora, 152, 171–2
Davison, Thomas, 437
Davy, Humphry, 303
de Clifford, Lady, 313
Delmé-Radcliffe, Mr, 453
De Morgan, Augustus: coaches Ada in mathematics, 12, 220, 224–9, 245–7; marriage, 214; and Ada’s fanciful view of mathematics, 230; and Ada’s departure for Paris, 242; letter from Ada in Ashley Combe, 256; praises Ada’s Babbage ‘Notes’, 278, 293; Annabella offers loan of house to, 428
De Morgan, Mary, 456, 459
De Morgan, Sophia (née Frend): visits Ada with father, 160; told of Ada’s visit to royal court, 180; on Ada’s understanding Babbage’s machine, 191; marriage, 220, 225; on father’s impatience with Ada’s impulsiveness, 226; memoirs on Ada, 229; Ada confides in, 280; supposed revealer of Ada’s relations with Crosse, 349; house in Cheyne Row, 456
De Morgan, William, 430
Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of (formerly Foster), 16, 22, 29, 78, 81
Devonshire. Georgiana, Duchess of: Werner (play), 86
Dickens, Charles, 192, 326, 389–90, 431
Dictionary of National Biography, 457–8
Doncaster Races, 354
Donkin, William Fishburn, 434
Dorchester, Charlotte, Lady (née Hobhouse), 452n, 459, 462
Doyle, Diana (née Milner), 14
Doyle, Sir Francis (Frank): marriage, 14, 93; on Annabella’s overtrusting nature, 110; favours Annabella’s permanent separation from Byron, 111–13; on risk of abduction of Annabella’s baby, 118
Doyle, Selina: friendship with Annabella, 14, 25; on Annabella’s marriage, 59, 111; correspondence with Annabella, 68, 110–11; remains unmarried, 111; visits Kirkby Mallory, 114; Augusta snubs, 123; on Mary Montgomery, 131; learns German, 172; on Ada’s adolescent liaison, 177; and Edward Noel’s marriage to Fanny Smith, 217; represents Annabella in Paris over Medora, 269–70
Drew, John, 376
Drummond, Henry, 217, 327, 332, 412n
Drury, Henry, 130n
Drury Lane Theatre, 39, 54, 88, 95
Dumas, Alexandre, 442
Dyce, Alexander, 72
Ealing Grove (school), 175, 207, 231–2
East Horsley Place, Surrey, 240, 314, 328; see also Horsley Towers
Ebrington, Elizabeth, Viscountess, 419
Ebrington, Hugh Fortescue, Viscount, 205
Eden, George (later 1st Earl of Auckland): courts Annabella, 20–1, 23, 34, 37, 71
Eden, Sir John, 20
Eden, Mary Dulcibella, 21
Eden, Revd William, 169
Eden, William (George’s brother): suicide, 20
Edgcumbe, Richard: Byron: The Last Phase, 462
Edgeworth, Maria, 184, 297
Edinburgh Review, 30, 126, 135, 260, 310
Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of, 354, 366
Eliot, George, 276n
Ellenborough, Anne, Lady, 16–17
Ellenborough, Edward Law, 1st Baron, 15–16
Elliotson, John, 248–9
Elphinstone, Mercer, 123
Elwin, Malcolm, 464–5
Ely, 129
England: poverty and social unrest, 324
Espourrin, Miss d’ (harp teacher), 209
Fagnani, Emma and Giuseppe, 455n
Fanshawe, Captain Edward, 344, 350, 363, 378
Faraday, Michael, 187, 213, 294–9, 301, 305, 374–6
Fellenberg, Dr Emmanuel: educational principles, 157–8, 174, 207, 232; death, 292
Fellows, H., 217
Fenwick, Dr, 10, 26–7, 42
Ferrers, Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl, 121
Fielding, Henry, 174
Fields, James T., 448n, 449
Fitton, William Henry, 234
Fitzhugh, Emily, 384, 391
Fitzpatrick, Lady Augusta, 422
Fleming, Mr: in Ada’s gambling circle, 364; and Ada’s life insurance, 389, 403–4
Fletcher, Ann Rood (Annabella’s maid), 112, 114, 117, 122
Fletcher, Julia, 456
Fletcher, William, 81, 91–2, 98, 117, 142–3, 151
Florida (ship), 151–2
Flying Dutchman (racehorse), 354, 366
Follen, Eliza Cabot, 406, 424, 433, 448, 454
Ford, Gerard, 436, 447–8
Ford, Mary, Lady (née Molesworth), 365
Ford, Sir Richard, 364–6
Fordhook (house), Ealing, 174, 209, 244
Fortescue, Lady Hester see King, Lady Hester
Foster, Sir Augustus, 21–4
Foster, Caroline, 23
Fox, Charles James, 14
Fox, Sir John, 75n, 117, 452–3; Vindication of Lady Byron, 445–6
Frend, Sophia see De Morgan, Sophia
Frend, William, 12–13, 160, 166, 181
Fry, Elizabeth, 307
Fuller, Margaret, 386, 422
Fyne Court, Somerset, 302–8, 312, 405–6
Gamlen, Revd Samuel, 204, 288
Garvey, Michael, 283
George, Prince Regent (later King George IV), 14n
George’s Terrace, Primrose Hill, London, 434
Gibson, John, 412
Godwin, William: social circle, 12; Caleb Williams, 121
Goethe, Ottilie von, 323
Gordon Riots (1780), 10
Gosford, Lady Annabella, 193–4
Gosford, Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of, 14
Gosford, Mary, Countess of (née Sparrow): friendship with Annabella, 13, 31; marriage, 13, 25; as chaperone for Annabella, 18, 28; Annabella stays with in London, 28–9; letter from Annabella on Byron’s marriage proposal, 39; and Annabella’s resuming relations with Byron, 47, 51; and Annabella’s engagement to Byron, 59; in Lowestoft, 129; in Hastings, 147; religiosity, 147; and Ada’s ambition to become farmer, 177
Gosford, Millicent, Countess of, 12
Grant, Eliza, 9
Great Cumberland Place, London, 331, 347, 351, 391
Great Exhibition (London, 1851), 350n, 363
Greig, Agnes: friendship with Ada, 249, 288, 412n; chaperones young Annabella in Europe, 350, 379; helps nurse Ada, 381; Annabella asks to console Ada, 386; cares for young Annabella, 441; and Ada’s swollen face, 475
Greig, Mrs: Laplace unable to identify as Mary Somerville, 185
Greig, Samuel, 184
Greig, William, 343
Greig, Woronzow: and Ada’s adolsecent fling, 178; on Ada’s appearance as girl, 186; studies at Cambridge with William Lovelace, 199; as William’s confidante, 201; Ada invites to Ockham, 209; marriage, 219; on Ada’s happiness at studying with De Morgan, 229; letters from Ada, 238, 245, 249, 256, 272n, 279, 308, 313; belittles Ada’s ambitions, 257; Ada visits, 288; and Ada’s proposed use of electricity and magnetism, 294; and Ada’s proposed study of the brain, 300–1; presents Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation to Ada, 300; Ada confides in, 309– 10; Ada asks to negotiate loan from Henry Currie, 330–1; retails gossip about Ada, 349; reveals Crosse to be married, 384–6; and Ada’s marriage difficulties, 388; and Annabella’s taking over at Great Cumberland Place, 392; at Ada’s death, 394–5, 399; attempts to reconcile Annabella and Lovelace, 400–2, 406; attends Ada’s funeral, 400; on Ada’s life insurance, 403–4; condemns Crosse, 404; and Annabella’s dispute wi
th Babbage, 408; and Ada’s health problems, 475
Grimes, Mrs (nurse), 102, 105, 145
Guiccioli, Contessa Teresa see Boissy, Marquise de
Hahn-Hahn, Countess Ida von, 319
Hallé, Charles, 418
Halnaby Hall, North Yorkshire 8–9, 19, 70–4, 463
Hamilton, John see Crosse, John
Hampstead: Annabella rents home in, 151
Hanson, John: Augusta lodges with, 44; and sale negotiations for Newstead, 45; and daughter’s questionable marriage to Earl of Portsmouth, 52, 60n, 75, 109, 171; Annabella visits, 93, 104; and Byron’s weak condition, 109; warns Byron to protect claim on Annabella’s expected fortune, 120; Mrs Fletcher’s deposition to, 122; declares Augusta Leigh mad, 171
Hanson, Mary Anne see Portsmouth, Countess of
Hanwell asylum, Middlesex, 307n
Harrow, Middlesex, 129–30
Hastings, Lady Flora, 368
Hastings, Sussex, 147–8, 155
Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia, 353n
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 233
Hayter, George, 28
Hayward, Abraham, 452
Heavitree House, Devon, 364
Herford, Mr (tutor), 316, 320, 336
Herkomer, Sir Hubert, 463
Herschel, Caroline, 183, 185
Herschel, John, 189, 297n
Heywood, Sergeant-at-law Samuel, 99, 113
Hickson, Willam, 311
Hoar, William, 68–9, 93
Hobhouse, John Cam (Baron Broughton de Gyfford): Byron confides in, 54; and Byron’s engagement and marriage to Annabella, 68–70; Byron tells of debts, 75; visits Byron in Piccadilly Terrace, 82, 98, 109; on Byron’s intention to abandon Annabella and go abroad, 98–9; influence on Byron, 120; Lady Melbourne reports to on Annabella’s strained appearance, 131; and return of Byron’s body to England, 151; obstructs Colburn’s publication of Byron letters, 165; Medora demands money from, 275; affection for Ada, 317–18; shocked by Ada’s disbelief in immortality, 317; supports Augusta at Reigate meeting with Annabella, 361; promotes plan for Byron monument in Westminster Abbey, 453–4
Hodgson, Francis, 56, 80, 100
Hofwyl, 157–8, 174–5, 231, 337
Holmes, John, 109
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 449
Hoppner, John: portrait of Annabella, 3–5, 347, 459
Horsley Towers, Surrey, 268, 313, 326, 327–8, 402, 417–18, 459, 463
Howitt, William, 425–6, 451
Humboldt, Alexander von, 189
Hunt, Leigh: The Siege of Rimini, 94
Hunter, John, 103
Inflexible (ship), 421
Ireland: potato famine and emigration, 323
Irving, Washington: Bracebridge Hall, 353n
Isola, Signor, 157
Jacquard, Joseph Marie, 223, 243, 265
James, George Payne Rainsford: Morley Einstein, 312n
James, Henry, 456–7, 459–60, 461; Aspern Papers, 456; The Turn of the Screw, 459
Jameson, Anna: Mary Somerville silences, 184n; Annabella meets and befriends, 206, 215; on Annabella’s indiscretion, 236; and Ada’s difficulties with Medora, 251, 256; on William’s meanness to Ada, 268; on Annabella’s health decline, 292; unable to find Annabella in Brighton, 313; on Teresa Guiccioli’s lost looks, 319; raises money for Irish poor, 323–4; congratulates Annabella on grandchildren’s upbringing, 337; lends money to Ada, 347; denied visit to dying Ada, 392; on Babbage’s proposal to publish memoir of Ada, 408; estrangement from Annabella, 410–12, 426; introduces Crabb Robinson to Annabella, 431; death, 435
Jeffrey, Francis, 30, 135–6
Jernyngham, Hubert, 442
Jersey, Sarah, Countess of, 123
Johns, Mr (embezzler), 325
Jones, Anna, 128, 146–7, 434–5, 438, 461n
Jones, Edgar, 475–6
Jones, Inigo, 9
Karslake, Henry, 404
Kay(-Shuttleworth), Dr James, 232, 248–9
Kean, Edward, 62
Kemble, Adelaide, 258
Kemble, Fanny: Records of Girlhood, 359
Kensal Rise see Reformers’ Memorial
Kensett, Mr (Ralph’s tutor), 363
King, Ada Mary (Molly; Ralph’s daughter) see Wentworth, 14th Baroness
King, Lady Anne Isabella (Annabella; Ada’s daughter) see Blunt, Lady Anne Isabella
King, Charlotte see Calliphronas, Charlotte
King, Hester see Crauford, Hester, Lady
King, Lady Hester (née Fortescue; Ada’s mother-in-law): property and wealth, 199–201, 204; tyrannises son William (Lovelace), 200–1, 283; and William and Ada’s change of name and title, 210; London house, 211; Ada attempts to conciliate, 213; as source of gossip about Ada, 309; wariness of William Lovelace, 319; causes trouble between sons, 328–9; letter to Crauford on wife’s death, 335; enquires about dying Ada, 395
King, Judith see Wentworth, 16th Baroness
King, Lionel Fortescue, 441, 458–9
King, Lord see Lovelace, 1st Earl of
King, Louisa (née Hoare; Locke’s wife), 211, 213n
King, Peter Locke, 200–1, 204, 211, 213, 253, 328–9, 400, 419, 441
King, Ralph Gordon (Ada’s son) see Wentworth, 13th Baron
King, Dr William, 166, 180–2, 186, 192, 270, 341, 422, 425
King, Mrs William, 317
Kingsley, Charles, 432–3
Kinnaird, Douglas: friendship with Byron, 76, 86, 88, 94–5, 131; reports Annabella living with Augusta, 131–2; resigns as Byron’s executor, 166
Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire: inheritance of estate, 7; Judith Noel (Milbanke) visits, 55; Noels inherit, 84, 93; Annabella and Byron invited to relocate to, 92–3; Annabella stays at, 108, 111, 114, 146, 369; new schools, 233; hospital, 399; memorial to Ada, 411; present state, 464
Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, 352
Knight, Charles, 214
Knight, Frederick, 245, 272, 309
Koh-i-Noor diamond, 350n
Kraemer, Dr (tutor), 284–5
Lafontaine, Charles, 248
Lamartine, Alphonse, 442
Lamb, Lady Caroline: affair with Byron, 18, 23, 32–4, 36–8; slashes wrists, 44; and Byron’s relations with Augusta, 54; congratulates Annabella on engagement to Byron, 59; Augusta Leigh mocks, 110; reads others’ letters, 111; anti-Byron gossip, 116; death, 210; Mme de Boissy on, 443; Glenarvon, 128–9
Lamb, Caroline (Mrs George Lamb; ‘Caro George’), 18, 23, 35, 129
Lamb, William see Melbourne, 2nd Viscount
Lamé, Gabriel: Cours de Physique, 246
Lamont, Miss (Ada’s governess), 148– 50, 172, 336, 338
Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de, 189, 262; Mécanique céleste, 184–5
Lardner, Dionysius, 191, 260
Larkin, Charles, 451
Lawrence, Arabella, 148–50, 160, 166, 171–3, 427
Leamington Spa, 369
Lee, Harriet: The German’s Tale, 86
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 189n
Leicester: Annabella funds public hospital, 233
Leigh, Augusta Mary (Byron’s half-sister): birth, 30; Annabella first sees, 43; at Six Mile Bottom,, 43, 47, 63, 78; relations with Byron, 44, 46, 50–1, 56, 58, 98; Byron’s incest with, 53–5, 79, 85, 110, 123, 133; birth of daughter, 54; at Newstead, 57–8; urges Byron to marry, 57; on Annabella’s engagement, 60–1, 64; Annabella unaware of incestuous relations with Byron, 63–4; encourages Byron on engagement to Annabella, 63; character, 67, 80; declines Annabella’s invitation to wedding party, 67; Annabella’s goodwill and trust in, 73, 77; reaction to Byron’s wedding ceremony, 73; on Byron’s declaring guilty act, 74; hints at Byron’s sexual practices, 75; and Byron’s sexual practices with Annabella, 76–7; Byron’s love for, 77; Annabel stays with, 78–80; Byron and Annabella stay with, 78–9; appointed Woman of Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, 82; stays with Annabella in London home, 83, 85–6; and Annabella’s longing for Seaham, 90; Annabella’s fondness for, 91; on Byron’s drinking, 95; joins
Annabella in London, 96–8; and Annabella’s proposal to leave Byron, 99; fears for Annabella’s safety, 100; and Annabella’s leaving Byron, 105, 114; letters to Byron on leaving, 105–6; asks to keep Byron under close supervision, 109; Byron commissions Holmes portrait of, 109–10; on threat to Annabella’s life, 112; intercepts Sir Ralph Noel’s letter to Byron, 114; pleads with Annabella to return to Byron, 116–19; Annabella protects from scandal, 118, 120; on Annabella’s gaunt appearance, 118–19; on suspected murder by Byron, 121; refuses to shake Selina Doyle’s hand, 122–3; snubbed socially, 123, 132; resumes friendship with Annabella, 132; shares Byron’s private correspondence with Annabella, 132; careless of public reputation, 137; and custody of Ada, 141n; favours Henry Trevanion as suitor for Georgiana, 163; financial difficulties, 164; Annabella accuses of lack of moral principles, 165; and Trevanion’s editing of Byron letters, 165; quarrel with Annabel over appointment of Byron exeutor, 168; and Medora’s pregnancy, 169; and Trevanion’s affair with Medora, 170; Annabella criticises, 180n; instructed by William King, 180–1; withholds financial help from Medora, 234; rift with Annabella, 235, 237, 252; and Medora’s downfall and untruthful accounts, 236–7; sponsors John Thomas (harpist), 238; seen by Medora on trip to London, 254; gives up £3000 deed, 271; Medora demands help from, 275; Annabella blames for marriage failure, 339; and Annabella’s retrospective view of Byron, 358–9; destitution after husband’s death, 358; Reigate meeting with Annabella, 360–1; death and funeral, 362, 372n; Byron describes Teresa Guiccioli to, 443; posthumous image romanticised, 454–5, 457; letters from Byron, 460
Leigh, Elizabeth Medora (Augusta’s daughter with Byron; ‘Mignonne’; ‘Libby’): birth, 53; Byron sends greetings to, 63; Annabella told of paternity, 79, 416; Caroline Lamb on birth of, 111, 123; attends Trevanion-Georgiana wedding, 164; entertains Trevanion, 165; affair and children with Trevanion, 169–71; parentage, 171, 231, 235, 241; destitution in France, 234; Annabella helps, 235–7; meeting with Annabella, 235; appearance and character, 236, 243; lying tales, 236–7, 243; Ada’s reaction to revelation of paternity, 241–2; known in France as ‘Widow Saint Aubin’, 241; Ada meets in Paris, 243; housed in England, 244; as threat to Ada’s claim to be Byron’s only heir, 249; jealousy of Ada, 251; tantrums, 251–2, 255; letter to Annabella disparaging Augusta, 254; returns to France, 255–6; seeks legal redress in Paris, 261, 269–71; Dr King negotiates with in Paris, 270–1; possible insanity, 270; status as unmarried mother, 273; acquires controversial deed of £3000, 275; death and grave, 276n, 339; marriage to Taillefer, 276n; account of Byron’s and mother’s relationship, 359