Crosse, Andrew, 190, 302–8, 311–12, 314, 367, 405, 475
Crosse, Cornelia, 405
Crosse, John: relations with Ada, 308– 14, 329–30, 349, 367, 384, 386–7, 391, 404–6; secret marriage to Susan Bowman, 321; requests financial help from Ada, 322, 331, 346; in Ada’s gambling circle, 364, 367; helps pawn Lovelace diamonds, 384, 392, 401; marriage and children revealed, 384–6; claims Ada’s life insurance, 403–4; letters from Ada, 404–5; changes name to Hamilton, 405
Crosse, Mary Anne (née Hamilton), 303
Crosse, Robert, 305, 367
Crosse, Susan (née Bowman), 321
Cruickshank, George, 125
Cruickshank, Isaac: The Separation (sketch), 125
Cunningham, Revd Francis, 129
Cunningham, Revd William, 129–30
Currie, Henry, 330–1
Currie, William, 217, 239
Curzon, Sophia Caroline, 8
D’Aguilar, Colonel George, 166–7
Daily News, 425, 451
Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of, 350n
Dallas, Robert, 42
Daphne, HMS, 344, 350, 378
Darnell, Revd William, 24, 26, 59
Darwin, Charles, 293
Davison, Flora, 152, 171–2
Davison, Thomas, 437
Davy, Humphry, 303
de Clifford, Lady, 313
Delmé-Radcliffe, Mr, 453
De Morgan, Augustus: coaches Ada in mathematics, 12, 220, 224–9, 245–7; marriage, 214; and Ada’s fanciful view of mathematics, 230; and Ada’s departure for Paris, 242; letter from Ada in Ashley Combe, 256; praises Ada’s Babbage ‘Notes’, 278, 293; Annabella offers loan of house to, 428
De Morgan, Mary, 456, 459
De Morgan, Sophia (née Frend): visits Ada with father, 160; told of Ada’s visit to royal court, 180; on Ada’s understanding Babbage’s machine, 191; marriage, 220, 225; on father’s impatience with Ada’s impulsiveness, 226; memoirs on Ada, 229; Ada confides in, 280; supposed revealer of Ada’s relations with Crosse, 349; house in Cheyne Row, 456
De Morgan, William, 430
Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of (formerly Foster), 16, 22, 29, 78, 81
Devonshire. Georgiana, Duchess of: Werner (play), 86
Dickens, Charles, 192, 326, 389–90, 431
Dictionary of National Biography, 457–8
Doncaster Races, 354
Donkin, William Fishburn, 434
Dorchester, Charlotte, Lady (née Hobhouse), 452n, 459, 462
Doyle, Diana (née Milner), 14
Doyle, Sir Francis (Frank): marriage, 14, 93; on Annabella’s overtrusting nature, 110; favours Annabella’s permanent separation from Byron, 111–13; on risk of abduction of Annabella’s baby, 118
Doyle, Selina: friendship with Annabella, 14, 25; on Annabella’s marriage, 59, 111; correspondence with Annabella, 68, 110–11; remains unmarried, 111; visits Kirkby Mallory, 114; Augusta snubs, 123; on Mary Montgomery, 131; learns German, 172; on Ada’s adolescent liaison, 177; and Edward Noel’s marriage to Fanny Smith, 217; represents Annabella in Paris over Medora, 269–70
Drew, John, 376
Drummond, Henry, 217, 327, 332, 412n
Drury, Henry, 130n
Drury Lane Theatre, 39, 54, 88, 95
Dumas, Alexandre, 442
Dyce, Alexander, 72
Ealing Grove (school), 175, 207, 231–2
East Horsley Place, Surrey, 240, 314, 328; see also Horsley Towers
Ebrington, Elizabeth, Viscountess, 419
Ebrington, Hugh Fortescue, Viscount, 205
Eden, George (later 1st Earl of Auckland): courts Annabella, 20–1, 23, 34, 37, 71
Eden, Sir John, 20
Eden, Mary Dulcibella, 21
Eden, Revd William, 169
Eden, William (George’s brother): suicide, 20
Edgcumbe, Richard: Byron: The Last Phase, 462
Edgeworth, Maria, 184, 297
Edinburgh Review, 30, 126, 135, 260, 310
Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of, 354, 366
Eliot, George, 276n
Ellenborough, Anne, Lady, 16–17
Ellenborough, Edward Law, 1st Baron, 15–16
Elliotson, John, 248–9
Elphinstone, Mercer, 123
Elwin, Malcolm, 464–5
Ely, 129
England: poverty and social unrest, 324
Espourrin, Miss d’ (harp teacher), 209
Fagnani, Emma and Giuseppe, 455n
Fanshawe, Captain Edward, 344, 350, 363, 378
Faraday, Michael, 187, 213, 294–9, 301, 305, 374–6
Fellenberg, Dr Emmanuel: educational principles, 157–8, 174, 207, 232; death, 292
Fellows, H., 217
Fenwick, Dr, 10, 26–7, 42
Ferrers, Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl, 121
Fielding, Henry, 174
Fields, James T., 448n, 449
Fitton, William Henry, 234
Fitzhugh, Emily, 384, 391
Fitzpatrick, Lady Augusta, 422
Fleming, Mr: in Ada’s gambling circle, 364; and Ada’s life insurance, 389, 403–4
Fletcher, Ann Rood (Annabella’s maid), 112, 114, 117, 122
Fletcher, Julia, 456
Fletcher, William, 81, 91–2, 98, 117, 142–3, 151
Florida (ship), 151–2
Flying Dutchman (racehorse), 354, 366
Follen, Eliza Cabot, 406, 424, 433, 448, 454
Ford, Gerard, 436, 447–8
Ford, Mary, Lady (née Molesworth), 365
Ford, Sir Richard, 364–6
Fordhook (house), Ealing, 174, 209, 244
Fortescue, Lady Hester see King, Lady Hester
Foster, Sir Augustus, 21–4
Foster, Caroline, 23
Fox, Charles James, 14
Fox, Sir John, 75n, 117, 452–3; Vindication of Lady Byron, 445–6
Frend, Sophia see De Morgan, Sophia
Frend, William, 12–13, 160, 166, 181
Fry, Elizabeth, 307
Fuller, Margaret, 386, 422
Fyne Court, Somerset, 302–8, 312, 405–6
Gamlen, Revd Samuel, 204, 288
Garvey, Michael, 283
George, Prince Regent (later King George IV), 14n
George’s Terrace, Primrose Hill, London, 434
Gibson, John, 412
Godwin, William: social circle, 12; Caleb Williams, 121
Goethe, Ottilie von, 323
Gordon Riots (1780), 10
Gosford, Lady Annabella, 193–4
Gosford, Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of, 14
Gosford, Mary, Countess of (née Sparrow): friendship with Annabella, 13, 31; marriage, 13, 25; as chaperone for Annabella, 18, 28; Annabella stays with in London, 28–9; letter from Annabella on Byron’s marriage proposal, 39; and Annabella’s resuming relations with Byron, 47, 51; and Annabella’s engagement to Byron, 59; in Lowestoft, 129; in Hastings, 147; religiosity, 147; and Ada’s ambition to become farmer, 177
Gosford, Millicent, Countess of, 12
Grant, Eliza, 9
Great Cumberland Place, London, 331, 347, 351, 391
Great Exhibition (London, 1851), 350n, 363
Greig, Agnes: friendship with Ada, 249, 288, 412n; chaperones young Annabella in Europe, 350, 379; helps nurse Ada, 381; Annabella asks to console Ada, 386; cares for young Annabella, 441; and Ada’s swollen face, 475
Greig, Mrs: Laplace unable to identify as Mary Somerville, 185
Greig, Samuel, 184
Greig, William, 343
Greig, Woronzow: and Ada’s adolsecent fling, 178; on Ada’s appearance as girl, 186; studies at Cambridge with William Lovelace, 199; as William’s confidante, 201; Ada invites to Ockham, 209; marriage, 219; on Ada’s happiness at studying with De Morgan, 229; letters from Ada, 238, 245, 249, 256, 272n, 279, 308, 313; belittles Ada’s ambitions, 257; Ada visits, 288; and Ada’s proposed use of electricity and magnetism, 294; and Ada’s proposed study of the brain, 300–1; presents Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation to Ada, 300; Ada confides in, 309– 10; Ada asks to negotiate loan from Henry Currie, 330–1; retails gossip about Ada, 349; reveals Crosse to be married, 384–6; and Ada’s marriage difficulties, 388; and Annabella’s taking over at Great Cumberland Place, 392; at Ada’s death, 394–5, 399; attempts to reconcile Annabella and Lovelace, 400–2, 406; attends Ada’s funeral, 400; on Ada’s life insurance, 403–4; condemns Crosse, 404; and Annabella’s dispute with Babbage, 408; and Ada’s health problems, 475
Grimes, Mrs (nurse), 102, 105, 145
Guiccioli, Contessa Teresa see Boissy, Marquise de
Hahn-Hahn, Countess Ida von, 319
Hallé, Charles, 418
Halnaby Hall, North Yorkshire 8–9, 19, 70–4, 463
Hamilton, John see
