Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron: meets Annabella, 28–38; appearance and manner, 29–30; family background, 30; lameness, 30, 70, 77; speech in Lords attacking repression of rioters, 31, 324; wild character, 31; praises Annabella’s poems, 33; Annabella’s estimate of character, 38–40; proposes to Annabella, 38, 41; serves on Drury Lane committee, 39, 88, 95; Annabella first declines marriage proposal, 40, 56, 60; Lady Melbourne intercedes in courtship with Annabella, 40–2; Annabella resumes acquaintance and correspondence with, 44–53; failed attempts to sell Newstead Abbey, 44–5, 57, 78; reunited with Augusta, 44, 46, 51; begins journal, 50; incest with Augusta, 54–5, 79, 85, 110, 123, 133; Annabella declares incompatible, 57–8; Annabella consents to marry, 58–60; vacillations over engagement to Annabella, 61–6; visits Annabella at Seaham, 61–4; visits Six Mile Bottom, 66, 78, 91; wedding at Seaham, 68–70; honeymoon, 71–7; near suffocation at Seaham, 72; irritability and temper, 73, 87, 91; financial worries and debts, 74–5, 87, 91–3, 96; religious beliefs, 74, 427; drinking, 77, 95, 109; love for Augusta, 77; declares fondness for Annabella, 78–9; marriage relations in Piccadilly Terrace, 81, 85–90; Phillips portrait in Albanian costume, 82, 145, 199, 347, 385, 459; diseased liver, 87; taunts and threatens Annabella, 87, 92, 98; draws up will, 90, 124; drinking parties with friends, 94, 96; Annabella proposes reform programme, 95–6; informs Annabella of affair with Susan Boyce, 96–7, 102; suggested insanity, 96, 101, 103–4; and Augusta’s presence at Piccadilly Terrace, 98; intention to move abroad, 98–9, 115; visits Annabella nursing Ada, 101; alludes to ‘mysterious act’, 102; Annabella leaves, 104–5; letters from Annabella on leaving, 105–8; declared rational in mind, 113; impending separation, 113–14; Caroline Lamb accuses of sodomy, 116; Annabella tells Lushington of shocking acts and practices, 117; agrees to separation, 121; suspected of murder, 121; books sold, 123; social ostracism, 123; leaves England in new coach, 124, 127; requests Annabella keep informed of family and children, 124; caricatured and criticised, 125–7; affairs and lovers after separation, 128; and burial of daughter Clara Allegra, 130; abuses Annabella in letters, 132–4; describes Annabella as ‘a moral Clytemnestra’, 133–4, 446; public attitude to, 136; writes self defence, 136; changing attitudes to Annabella, 137; death in Greece, 137, 143–4, 151; maintains interest in daughter Ada, 142–4; Annabella takes portrait to Hampstead home, 151; body returned to England and buried, 151, 353; and sale of Newstead, 162, 216; concern for Augusta’s financial security, 164; Annabella helps financially, 168–9; Thorwaldsen bust and statue, 317–18; granted memorial in Westminster Abbey, 318n, 454 & n; on poverty in England, 323; Annabella’s romantic memories of, 340, 358; Ada’s view of, 357; Guiccioli’s (de Boissy’s) accounts of, 442–4; relations with Teresa Guiccioli, 443, 446; incest made known in later biographies and accounts, 445–55, 457; letters published, 460–2, 465; letters to Lady Melbourne, 460, 462; drinking allergy, 476; suggested epilepsy and bipolar condition, 476; The Bride of Abydos, 53; Childe Harold, 29–30, 42, 134–6, 417; The Corsair, 52; The Deform’d Transformed (play), 427; Don Juan, 134, 136; ‘Fare Thee Well’ (poem), 122–5, 173; ‘Framers of the Frame Bill’ (poem), 30; The Giaour, 173; ‘Lines, on hearing Lady Byron was Ill’ (poem), 134; Manfred, 460; ‘Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte’, 55; Parisina, 107n; Ravenna Journal, 99; ‘The Satire’, 173; The Siege of Corinth, 94, 107n; ‘A Sketch from Private Life’, 122; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’, 123; Werner (play draft), 86
Byron, Captain John (Byron’s father; ‘Mad Jack’), 101
Byron, Admiral John (of the Wager), 163
Byron, Lucy, Lady (née Wescomb; wife of 8th Baron), 153, 352, 357n
Byron, Mary, Lady (George junior’s wife), 168
Byron, Sophia, 101, 118
Bystram, Baron, 319
Calliphronas, Charlotte (née King; Ada’s sister-in-law), 200–1, 213, 215, 229, 248–9, 252–3
Calliphronas, Demetrius, 248, 252–3
Campbell, Thomas, 35
Canning, Stratford, 48
Carlisle, Henry, 452n
Carlyle, Thomas, 190
Carpenter, Margaret, 208–9, 338, 459
Carpenter, Mary, 285, 426, 437–8
Carpenter, Dr William: as tutor to Ada’s children, 285–90, 292, 315– 16; relations with Ada, 286–7, 297, 309, 314; Annabella offers financial help to, 292–3, 314–15
Carpenter, Lant, 285
Carr family, 147, 152
Carr, Frances (Fanny), 145n, 339–40, 437, 441
Carr, Mr (of Hampstead), 145
Carr, Sarah see Lushington, Sarah
Chalon, Alfred, 215, 296
Chaloner, Elizabeth, 14
Chaloner, Louisa, 14, 157, 164
Chambers, Robert: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 300, 304, 310–12
Champion, The (newspaper), 123–4
Chandos-Pole, Elizabeth see Byron, Elizabeth, Lady
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia,
222–3
Charlotte, Queen of George III, 83
Charlotte Augusta, Princess, 122
Chartism, 324
Chaworth, Mary, 457, 462
Chichester, Mary, Countess of (Augusta’s half-sister), 361–2, 458
Chiles, Samuel (tipster), 365
Clairmont, Claire, 128, 133, 141–2, 457
Clare, John Fitzgibbon, 2nd Earl of, 348
Clark, Sir James, 368
Clark, Mrs (Florence Nightingale’s housekeeper), 399
Clarkson, Thomas, 233
Claughton, Thomas, 45, 78, 93
Clement, Joseph, 189
Clermont, Mary Anne: housekeeping for Sophy Curzon, 8; teaches handwriting to Annabella, 10; letters from Annabella, 88, 105; joins Annabella’s household, 97; believes Byron capable of murdering Annabella, 98; and Byron’s reaction to birth of daughter, 100; and Annabella’s leaving Byron, 105, 112, 115; on Byron’s condition after Annabella leaves, 109; controls Lady Noel’s temper, 113; Byron blames and abuses for marriage breakdown, 122–3, 173; Annabella severs relations with, 131
Colburn, Henry (publisher), 164–5
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: defends Frend, 12; relations with Byron, 94; in Somerset, 302; ‘Christabel’, 94; Kubla Khan, 240
Combe, Andrew, 146n, 192, 208n, 234
Combe, Cecilia (née Siddons), 146n
Combe, George, 146n, 208n, 232; The Constitution of Man, 207–8, 214
Cooper, Miss (governess), 287, 315–16
Cork, Mary Boyle, Countess of, 17
Cowper, Emily, Lady, 32
Crabbe, George, 30
Crabbet Park (Sussex), 463–4
Crabbet Stud, 463
Craft, Ellen, 430
Craft, William, 430
Craig, Mr (Ealing headmaster), 207, 231–2
Crauford, Sir George, 249, 252–4, 335, 400
Crauford, Hester, Lady (née King; Ada’s sister-in-law): relations with Ada, 211–16; stays with Robert Noel in Germany, 215; takes care of Ada’s children, 229; courtship and marriage, 249, 252–4, 259; Ada
