In Byron's Wake

83; life and marriage relations in Piccadilly Terrace, 83–90; nurses dying Lord Wentworth, 85; Byron’s aggression towards, 87, 92, 98; Ticknor describes, 89; proposes reforms for Byron, 95–6; believes Byron going insane, 96, 101, 103–4; Byron informs of affair with Susan Boyce, 96, 102; gathers friends and staff as support, 97–8; birth of daughter (Augusta) Ada, 99; and Byron’s intention to go abroad, 99; Lady Noel invites to north with family, 101, 103; leaves Byron, 104–5; loving letters to Byron on leaving, 105–8; admires Byron’s poetry, 107n; impending separation from Byron, 112–19; divided over separation, 114; informs Lushington of Byron’s behaviour and supposed murder, 117, 121; protects Augusta from scandal, 118, 120, 416; writes to Byron on decision to leave, 119; hardens attitude to Byron and Augusta, 122–3; accepts certainty of Byron’s incest, 123; called ‘spoilt child’, 126n, 443; public reputation and image, 127–31, 137, 147; never divorces, 128; portrayed in Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon, 128–9; denies Augusta access to Ada, 132; resumes friendship with Augusta, 132; shares Byron’s correspondence with Augusta, 132–3; 446; maintains relations with John Murray, 134; satirised in Byron’s works, 134, 136; and Ada’s upbringing and education, 145–6, 148–50, 176; behaviour after separation criticised, 146; interest in phrenology, 146n, 192, 207; philanthropic and educational work, 146–7, 158, 166, 174–5, 231–3, 313, 324–6, 417n, 426; told of Byron’s death, 151; inheritance, 154; redresses inheritance injustice to Wentworth’s grandchildren, 154; visits to Europe, 156–7, 419; continuing feelings for late husband, 157; influenced by Fellenberg, 158; supports Trevanion-Georgiana marriage, 163–4; financial acumen, 164, 324–5; obstructs publication of Byron letters, 165; sailing, 166; quarrel with Augusta over appointment of Byron executor, 167–8; and Trevanion’s affair with Libby (Medora), 170; reads Byron’s poetry to Ada, 173; buys and moves to Fordhook (house), Ealing, 174, 176; educational principles, 175–6, 232; received by king and queen, 179–80; accompanies Ada to Babbage’s, 191; on Ada’s changeability in interests, 192; tours England on factory inspections with Ada, 193; declines to invest in Babbage’s machine, 195–6; and William’s courtship and marriage to Ada, 203–4; and Ada’s marriage settlement, 205; content after Ada’s marriage, 206; nickname (‘the Hen’), 206, 208; writes on industrial schools, 207; commissions portrait of Ada, 208–9; character portrait of Ada, 210; names grandchildren, 211; praises Ada’s ability to communicate difficult ideas, 214; cares for granddaughter, 216; accompanies Edward Noel to Germany, 217–18, 220–1, 225; more relaxed relations with Ada, 217; letter from De Morgan on Ada’s potential, 228; in France, 231, 234–5, 242; reforms conditions for teachers, 232; exhaustion, 234, 292; helps Medora Leigh, 235–7, 244; rift with Augusta Leigh, 235, 252; indiscretions, 236; and Medora’s accounts of treatment, 237; railway investments, 240n; prunes family papers, 248; flees from Medora’s rage, 251–2; letter from Medora, 254–5; and Medora’s return to France, 256; on William’s meanness towards Ada, 268–9; and Medora’s claims on property, 271; Ada gives Babbage translation to, 275; finds tutor for Ada’s children, 285; advocates mesmerism for Ada, 290; disagreement with Edward and Fanny Noel, 291; offers financial help to William Carpenter, 292, 315; supports Ada’s proposed scientific research, 301; patronises London madhouse, 307; subsidises Ada’s home in Brighton, 313; on Ada’s poor health, 316; and grandchildren’s upbringing, 316, 336–7, 339, 417; and Ada’s spat with William, 320; social relief in England and Ireland, 324–5; takes control of Ockham schools, 326; and Lovelace’s earldom, 328; and Ada’s financial difficulties, 330–1; suspects Ada, 330; consigns family papers to Fanny Carr, 339–40; relations with Frederick Robertson, 340, 356, 358–61, 379, 415, 421–2; retrospective romantic view of marriage to Byron, 340, 358, 361; fears repetition of incest among grandchildren, 342–3, 460; lends money to William Lovelace, 347; hatred of gambling, 348, 370; and Ada’s view of Lord Byron, 357; suggests Ada acquire Newstead, 357; proposes preface to cheap edition of Byron’s works, 359; Reigate meeting with Augusta Leigh, 360–1, 461; accused of being despotic, 361n; writes to Emily Leigh on mother’s death, 362; favours Ada’s moving abroad, 363; accuses Lovelace of betraying Ada, 370–1, 403; Ada visits in Brighton, 371; and Ada’s electromagnetic experiments, 376–7; nominated for membership of British Meteorological Society, 376; nurses grandson Ralph, 377–8, 379; told of Ada’s cancer, 379; asks for list of Ada’s debts, 381; money gift to Lovelace, 382; told of Ockham’s success in navy, 382; Ada confesses gambling debts to, 383–4; thanks Agnes Greig, 386; and Ada’s pawning of Lovelace diamonds, 388, 392–3; and Ada’s wish to be buried in Byron’s vault, 389; visits sick Ada, 390; moves into Great Cumberland Place, 391–2; defends Ada’s reputation, 392; and Ada’s death, 394–5; moves into Brown’s Hotel, London, 397, 406; papers destroyed, 399–400; refuses Lovelace’s wish for reconciliation, 400–2, 406, 426, 435; and negotiations over Crosse’s letters, 404; learns of Ada’s low-life activities, 406; dispute with Babbage, 407–9; estrangement from Anna Jameson, 410–11, 412, 426; memoir (third person), 415– 17, 435; and upbringing of grandchildren after Ada’s death, 418–19; attends Robertson’s funeral, 421; takes in grandson Ockham in Brighton, 421; Henry Crabb Robinson praises, 422–3; acts of coldness, 426; emotional isolation in later years, 426; co-founds The National Review, 427; generosity, 428–30; houses, 429n; friendship with Harriet Beecher Stowe, 431–4; moves to final home in St George’s Terrace, 434; death and funeral, 435; will, 436–7; personal papers sealed and deposited in bank, 437; Harriet Martineau’s essay on, 438–41; Teresa Guiccioli (de Boissy)’s accounts of, 442–4; posthumous accounts and gossip on, 443–53, 457; letters to Ada on incest and Augusta Leigh, 445; Harriet Beecher Stowe defends and reveals Byron’s incest, 449–50; in Ralph Wentworth’s Astarte, 461; named on Reformers’ Memorial, 464; reputation, 464–6; influence on Ada, 467; ‘Byromania’ (poem), 34; ‘Remarks’, 127, 174; ‘The Unnatural Mother’ (poem), 144

Byron, Augusta Ada see Lovelace, Countess of

Byron, Revd Augustus, 445, 456n

Byron, Catherine (née Gordon; Byron’s mother), 30

Byron, Clara Allegra (Byron’s daughter by Claire Clairmont), 130, 141–2

Byron, Eliza (Byron’s cousin), 48

Byron, Elizabeth, Lady (née Chandos-Pole; Admiral George Byron’s wife), 97, 109, 114

Byron, George, 8th Baron (Admiral George’s son), 152–3, 168

Byron, Admiral (earlier Captain) George Anson, 7th Baron (Byron’s cousin): Hastings holiday, 56; at Newstead, 93;