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Augusta later married her cousin, Lt. Colonel George Leigh (1771–1850), son of General Charles Leigh (1748–1815) and his wife, Frances Byron (1749-1823), her paternal aunt. The couple had seven children: Georgiana Augusta, Augusta Charlotte, George Henry, Elizabeth Medora, Frederick George, Amelia Marianne, and Henry Francis.
Augusta Leigh, who had remained with Byron at Piccadilly Terrace since his wife's departure, intercepted the letter, as she feared he would commit suicide if he knew of it. She returned the letter to Kirkby Mallory and communicated her opinion that greater consideration should be taken in the matter of the Byrons' marriage.
Augusta Leigh's child, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, born in 1814, was possibly fathered by Byron, who was Augusta's half-brother. Byron had a child, The Hon. Augusta Ada Byron ("Ada", later Countess of Lovelace), in 1815, by his wife Annabella Byron, Lady Byron (née Anne Isabella Milbanke, or
Elizabeth Medora Leigh (15 April 1814 – 28 August 1849) was the third daughter of Augusta Leigh.It is widely speculated that she was fathered by her mother's half-brother Lord Byron; this is supported by comments from his widow, even though her mother's husband, Colonel George Leigh, was her legal father.
America Medora "Dora" McCulloch Allison Johnson (1862–1926), wife of 19th century American cattle rancher, cattle broker and gunfighter Clay Allison Elizabeth Medora Leigh (1814–1849), suspected biological daughter of Lord Byron by his half-sister, Augusta Leigh; legal daughter of Augusta and her husband George Leigh
21 May – George Gordon Byron became 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale on death of great-uncle. August – With his mother took up residence at ancestral home, Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham. 1799. Lived with Parkyns family, Nottingham. Tutored by "Dummer" Rogers. July – Removed to London by John Hanson, Byron’s lawyer & business agent.
They married despite the objections of Georgiana's father, Col. George Leigh. Henry Trevanion later began a relationship with his wife's younger sister, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, a woman whose father was thought to be actually Lord Byron, Augusta Leigh's half brother. Though the Trevanions struggled for money their entire lives, Ada Trevanion ...
Byron wrote this "metaphysical drama", as he called it, after his marriage to Annabella Millbanke failed because of a scandal due to charges of sexual improprieties and an incestuous affair between Byron and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. Attacked by the press and ostracised by London society, Byron fled England for Switzerland in 1816 and ...