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Ada was a descendant of the extinct Barons Lovelace and in 1838, her husband was made Earl of Lovelace and Viscount Ockham, meaning Ada became the Countess of Lovelace. [30] In 1843–44, Ada's mother assigned William Benjamin Carpenter to teach Ada's children and to act as a "moral" instructor for Ada. [ 31 ]
Ada Byron Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth (26 February 1871 – 18 June 1917) was a British peer. Ada Byron Milbanke was the only acknowledged child of the Right Honourable Ralph Milbanke, Baron Wentworth and later Earl of Lovelace , the grandson of the poet Lord Byron, and his first wife Fannie Heriot.
In 1838 the eighth Baron was created Viscount Ockham (territorial designation the same, to be the family's first courtesy title), and Earl of Lovelace in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] He was appointed the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey from 1840 to 1893. Ada died in 1852, leaving her husband, in his forties, a widower.
Lord Ockham was the eldest son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and his wife, Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. His maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth. He gained the rank of officer in the service of the Royal Navy, although he deserted, worked his passage ...
William was subsequently made the 1st Earl Lovelace, and the couple had three children, Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham and 12th Baron Wentworth; Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth, who brought the Arabian horse to England; and Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace. Ada amassed considerable gambling debts [citation needed] before dying ...
The first documented person to come up with computing is Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century writer and mathematician. Most computing positions were jobs for women and scarcely were men given the role.
He was born at 10 St. James's Square, London on 2 July 1839, the second son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. His maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Byron, Baroness Wentworth, 11th holder of the barony of Wentworth.
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