Hampstead: Annabella rents home in, 151
Hanson, John: Augusta lodges with, 44; and sale negotiations for Newstead, 45; and daughter’s questionable marriage to Earl of Portsmouth, 52, 60n, 75, 109, 171; Annabella visits, 93, 104; and Byron’s weak condition, 109; warns Byron to protect claim on Annabella’s expected fortune, 120; Mrs Fletcher’s deposition to, 122; declares Augusta Leigh mad, 171
Hanson, Mary Anne see Portsmouth, Countess of
Hanwell asylum, Middlesex, 307n
Harrow, Middlesex, 129–30
Hastings, Lady Flora, 368
Hastings, Sussex, 147–8, 155
Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia, 353n
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 233
Hayter, George, 28
Hayward, Abraham, 452
Heavitree House, Devon, 364
Herford, Mr (tutor), 316, 320, 336
Herkomer, Sir Hubert, 463
Herschel, Caroline, 183, 185
Herschel, John, 189, 297n
Heywood, Sergeant-at-law Samuel, 99, 113
Hickson, Willam, 311
Hoar, William, 68–9, 93
Hobhouse, John Cam (Baron Broughton de Gyfford): Byron confides in, 54; and Byron’s engagement and marriage to Annabella, 68–70; Byron tells of debts, 75; visits Byron in Piccadilly Terrace, 82, 98, 109; on Byron’s intention to abandon Annabella and go abroad, 98–9; influence on Byron, 120; Lady Melbourne reports to on Annabella’s strained appearance, 131; and return of Byron’s body to England, 151; obstructs Colburn’s publication of Byron letters, 165; Medora demands money from, 275; affection for Ada, 317–18; shocked by Ada’s disbelief in immortality, 317; supports Augusta at Reigate meeting with Annabella, 361; promotes plan for Byron monument in Westminster Abbey, 453–4
Hodgson, Francis, 56, 80, 100
Hofwyl, 157–8, 174–5, 231, 337
Holmes, John, 109
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 449
Hoppner, John: portrait of Annabella, 3–5, 347, 459
Horsley Towers, Surrey, 268, 313, 326, 327–8, 402, 417–18, 459, 463
Howitt, William, 425–6, 451
Humboldt, Alexander von, 189
Hunt, Leigh: The Siege of Rimini, 94
Hunter, John, 103
Inflexible (ship), 421
Ireland: potato famine and emigration, 323
Irving, Washington: Bracebridge Hall, 353n
Isola, Signor, 157
Jacquard, Joseph Marie, 223, 243, 265
James, George Payne Rainsford: Morley Einstein, 312n
James, Henry, 456–7, 459–60, 461; Aspern Papers, 456; The Turn of the Screw, 459
Jameson, Anna: Mary Somerville silences, 184n; Annabella meets and befriends, 206, 215; on Annabella’s indiscretion, 236; and Ada’s difficulties with Medora, 251, 256; on William’s meanness to Ada, 268; on Annabella’s health decline, 292; unable to find Annabella in Brighton, 313; on Teresa Guiccioli’s lost looks, 319; raises money for Irish poor, 323–4; congratulates Annabella on grandchildren’s upbringing, 337; lends money to Ada, 347; denied visit to dying Ada, 392; on Babbage’s proposal to publish memoir of Ada, 408; estrangement from Annabella, 410–12, 426; introduces Crabb Robinson to Annabella, 431; death, 435
Jeffrey, Francis, 30, 135–6
Jernyngham, Hubert, 442
Jersey, Sarah, Countess of, 123
Johns, Mr (embezzler), 325
Jones, Anna, 128, 146–7, 434–5, 438, 461n
Jones, Edgar, 475–6
Jones, Inigo, 9
Karslake, Henry, 404
Kay(-Shuttleworth), Dr James, 232, 248–9
Kean, Edward, 62
Kemble, Adelaide, 258
Kemble, Fanny: Records of Girlhood, 359
Kensal Rise see Reformers’ Memorial
Kensett, Mr (Ralph’s tutor), 363
King, Ada Mary (Molly; Ralph’s daughter) see Wentworth, 14th Baroness
King, Lady Anne Isabella (Annabella; Ada’s daughter) see Blunt, Lady Anne Isabella
King, Charlotte see Calliphronas, Charlotte
King, Hester see Crauford, Hester, Lady
King, Lady Hester (née Fortescue; Ada’s mother-in-law): property and wealth, 199–201, 204; tyrannises son William (Lovelace), 200–1, 283; and William and Ada’s change of name and title, 210; London house, 211; Ada attempts to conciliate, 213; as source of gossip about Ada, 309; wariness of William Lovelace, 319; causes trouble between sons, 328–9; letter to Crauford on wife’s death, 335; enquires about dying Ada, 395
King, Judith see Wentworth, 16th Baroness
King, Lionel Fortescue, 441, 458–9
King, Lord see Lovelace, 1st Earl of
King, Louisa (née Hoare; Locke’s wife), 211, 213n
King, Peter Locke, 200–1, 204, 211, 213, 253, 328–9, 400, 419, 441
King, Ralph Gordon (Ada’s son) see Wentworth, 13th Baron
King, Dr William, 166, 180–2, 186, 192, 270, 341, 422, 425
King, Mrs William, 317
Kingsley, Charles, 432–3
Kinnaird, Douglas: friendship with Byron, 76, 86, 88, 94–5, 131; reports Annabella living with Augusta, 131–2; resigns as Byron’s executor, 166
Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire: inheritance of estate, 7; Judith Noel (Milbanke) visits, 55; Noels inherit, 84, 93; Annabella and Byron invited to relocate to, 92–3; Annabella stays at, 108, 111, 114, 146, 369; new schools, 233; hospital, 399; memorial to Ada, 411; present state, 464
Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, 352
Knight, Charles, 214
Knight, Frederick, 245, 272, 309
Koh-i-Noor diamond, 350n
Kraemer, Dr (tutor), 284–5
Lafontaine, Charles, 248
Lamartine, Alphonse, 442
Lamb, Lady Caroline: affair with Byron, 18, 23, 32–4, 36–8; slashes wrists, 44; and Byron’s relations with Augusta, 54; congratulates Annabella on engagement to Byron, 59; Augusta Leigh mocks, 110; reads others’ letters, 111; anti-Byron gossip, 116; death, 210; Mme de Boissy on, 443; Glenarvon, 128–9
Lamb, Caroline (Mrs George Lamb; ‘Caro George’), 18, 23, 35, 129
Lamb, William see Melbourne, 2nd Viscount
Lamé, Gabriel: Cours de Physique, 246
Lamont, Miss (Ada’s governess), 148– 50, 172, 336, 338
Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de, 189, 262; Mécanique céleste, 184–5
Lardner, Dionysius, 191, 260
Larkin, Charles, 451
Lawrence, Arabella, 148–50, 160, 166, 171–3, 427
Leamington Spa, 369
Lee, Harriet: The German’s Tale, 86
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 189n
Leicester: Annabella funds public hospital, 233
Leigh, Augusta Mary (Byron’s half-sister): birth, 30; Annabella first sees, 43; at Six Mile Bottom,, 43, 47, 63, 78; relations with Byron, 44, 46, 50–1, 56, 58, 98; Byron’s incest with, 53–5, 79, 85, 110, 123, 133; birth of daughter, 54; at Newstead, 57–8; urges Byron to marry, 57; on Annabella’s engagement, 60–1, 64; Annabella unaware of incestuous relations with Byron, 63–4; encourages Byron on engagement to Annabella, 63; character, 67, 80; declines Annabella’s invitation to wedding party, 67; Annabella’s goodwill and trust in, 73, 77; reaction to Byron’s wedding ceremony, 73; on Byron’s declaring guilty act, 74; hints at Byron’s sexual practices, 75; and Byron’s sexual practices with Annabella, 76–7; Byron’s love for, 77; Annabel stays with, 78–80; Byron and Annabella stay with, 78–9; appointed Woman of Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, 82; stays with Annabella in London home, 83, 85–6; and Annabella’s longing for Seaham, 90; Annabella’s fondness for, 91; on Byron’s drinking, 95; joins Annabella in London, 96–8; and Annabella’s proposal to leave Byron, 99; fears for Annabella’s safety, 100; and Annabella’s leaving Byron, 105, 114; letters to Byron on leaving, 105–6; asks to keep Byron under close supervision, 109; Byron commissions Holmes portrait of, 109–10; on threat to Annabella’s life, 112; intercepts Sir Ralph Noel’s letter to Byron, 114; pleads with Annabella to return to Byron, 116–19; Annabella protects from scandal, 118, 120; on Annabella’s gaunt appearance,
