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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871) "Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation). Charles Babbage KH FRS Babbage in 1860 Born (1791-12-26) 26 December 1791 London, England Died 18 October 1871 (1871-10-18) (aged 79) Marylebone, London ...
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications ...
Babbage left England when his wife and father died in 1827. On his return in 1828, now in possession of a considerable inheritance, he began to host Saturday evening parties. [1] The science historian James A. Secord describes the parties as "scientific soirées". Secord writes that Babbage imported the idea from France, and once established ...
Charles Whitmore Babbage (1842 – 17 August 1923), their eldest son, was a prize-winning student at Adelaide Educational Institution 1853–58. [28] Herschel wrote to his father "I have found a good school for the boys, John Lorenzo's non-denominational school.
Lady Byron was born Anne Isabella Milbanke, the only child of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 6th Baronet, and his wife, the Hon. Judith Noel (1751-1822), sister of Thomas Noel, Viscount Wentworth. [2] Her father's only surviving sibling was Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, the influential political hostess. Her children, Anne's cousins, were:
In 1814, Georgiana Whitmore, a daughter of William Whitmore and sister of the budding politician, married computing pioneer Charles Babbage. Babbage lived at Dudmaston Hall for significant periods and even engineered the central heating system. [ 18 ]
His sister Georgiana Whitmore (1792–1827) married the English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage in 1814 and had eight children with him, including Australian settlers Benjamin Herschel Babbage and Dugald Bromhead Babbage. [14]
Charles Babbage: 1791 1871 Inventor; his analytical engine anticipated the modern computer Augustus Theodore Bartholomew: 1882 1933 Cambridge librarian William Brewster: 1566 1644 Colonial leader and preacher G. B. Caird: 1917 1984 Biblical scholar and churchman Thomas Campion: 1567 1620 Composer and poet Steph Cook: 1972 Gold medal Olympian in ...