Noel, Robert: Annabella chooses as family trustee, 154; interprets for Annabella on European tour, 156; studies phrenology in Dresden, 172; and Annabella’s proposal to send Edward to Greece, 174; Annabella gives £100 to as Ada’s wedding present, 205; introduces Anna Jameson to Annabella, 206; takes living mask of young Hester (Crauford), 215; Ada describes herself to as professional, 271, 284; and Annabella’s taking over younger grandchildren, 336; recommends Miss Wächter, 338; Robertson meets, 340; Anna Jameson ends contact with, 411; takes Robertson’s death mask, 422; shares inheritance with brother Charles, 423; returns from Dresden, 427; and Paget’s first Blackwood’s article, 447
Noel, Revd Thomas, 7, 69–70, 128, 423
Noel, Thomas Jr, 154, 157, 205, 423
Noel-Baker family, 174n
Norbury, Steuart, Countess of, 459n
Norton, Caroline, 444
Nugent, George Nugent, Baron, 199
O’Brien, William Smith, 343–4
Ockham: new schools, 214, 232, 326
Ockham, Byron King, Viscount (Ada’s son): birth, 210; as mother’s favourite, 216, 229, 247, 284, 342–3; education and upbringing, 284, 316, 320, 338, 341, 342; relations with Carpenter, 315; rude behaviour, 320, 341; sea voyage to Tasmania, 338, 341, 343–4; appearance and character, 341–2; kept from sister, 342, 460; champions underclass against privileged, 344; transfers to Daphne, 350; in Chile, 363; letters from abroad, 378; life at sea, 378–9; returns home, 387; visits dying mother, 390, 393; disappears, 393; posted to Malta, 394, 420; surrenders and serves on HMS Victory, 394; Annabella supports, 417; future considered, 419–20; sent home for indiscipline, 420–1; Annabella takes in at Brighton, 421; manual work, 427; accepts Wentworth barony, 439n; death, 439–40
Ockham Park, Surrey, 200–2, 204, 213, 226, 318, 326, 459n, 464
Ohm, Georg, 295
Orléans, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of, 179
Orléans, Hélène, Duchess of, 345
Owen, Robert, 166
Oxford, Elizabeth Jane, Countess of, 40, 43
Padwick, John, 382–3, 404
Paget, John, 325, 446–50, 453–4, 461
Pakenham, General Edward, 24
Pall Mall Gazette, 451
Paris: Annabella and Medora in, 231, 235–6
Pascal, Blaise, 189n Peacock, George, 225, 227
Pearce family, 319–20
Peel, Sir Robert, 195, 260
Perkins, Mary Foote, 432
Philips, Sir George, 202–3
Phillips, Henry Wyndham, 385
Phillips, Thomas: portrait of Byron in Albanian costume, 82, 145, 199, 347, 385, 459
Piccadilly Terrace, London, 81, 93
Plana, Count Giovanni di, 222–3
Pontivy, Brittany, 234
Portsmouth, John Charles Wallop, 3rd Earl of, 52, 60, 65, 75, 104, 171
Portsmouth, Mary Anne, Countess of (née Hanson), 52, 60, 75
Prandi, Fortunato, 222
Prescott, William: The History of the Conquest of Mexico, 349
Prince Leopold (yacht), 166
Prothero, Rowland, 460–2, 465
Pugin, Augustus, 327
Quarterly Review, 13, 98, 452
Queensberry, William Douglas, 4th Duke of, 81
Quetelet, Adolphe, 374, 376
rainbows, 181, 375, 397
Rathbone, Elizabeth, 324–5, 446
Rawdon, Bessy, 35, 37
Realf, Richard, 423–5
Reed, Henry Hope, 409
Rees, Michael, 443n
Reformers’ Memorial, Kensal Rise, 10, 464
Reichenbach, Carl Ludwig, Baron von, 312n
Reid, Elizabeth Jesser, 426, 431, 438
Reigate, Surrey, 360–1, 461
Repton, Humphry, 6
revolutions of 1848, 324
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 5
Robertson, Revd Frederick: relations with Annabella, 340, 356, 358– 61, 379, 415, 421–2; death and funeral, 421; Annabella proposes biography of, 422
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 422–3, 425, 427, 430–1, 451, 461
Rogers, Samuel, 43, 72
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 113, 141
Rood, Susan, 92
Ross, Revd Alexander, 445
Rosse, Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of, 327
Royal Society: Ada seeks access to, 301
Ruskin, John, 418
Russell, John Scott, 427
Rutter, William, 376–7
Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de: Justine, 104
St Aulaire, Comtesse, 273
Saturday Review, 454
Scarsdale, Nathaniel Curzon, 3rd Baron, 336
Scott, Sir Walter: fame, 14; on Byron’s irritability, 73; quotes Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ to Byron, 94n; teases Byron, 125; praises Byron in review of Childe Harold, 134–5
Seaham Hall, Co. Durham: Hoppner’s portrait of Annabella at, 5; Annabella’s fondness for, 9; Byron invited to visit, 53, 56; Byron meets Annabella at, 61–5; Annabel attempts to save, 65; and Annabella’s wedding, 68; Byron’s near suffocation at, 72; Annabel returns to, 75; reacreations and games at, 75–6; Annabel stays at during Byron’s absence, 78; Byron and Annabella visit, 90; Annabella learns to be sold, 147; now a spa, 463
Seaham village, Co. Durham, 9–10, 55, 69; Annabella sets up new school, 131, 147
Sedgwick, Adam, 310–11
Sedgwick, Catherine, 292
Shelley, Mary, 128, 142, 264, 301n, 427n; Frankenstein, 301, 303–4
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 128, 131–2, 142, 323, 443
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 94–5 Shuttleworth, Janet, 249
Siddons, Harriet (Mrs Henry): establishes school in Edinburgh, 146; and Annabella’s visit to Hastings, 147; accompanies Annabella on European tour, 157; recommends Fellenberg to Annabella, 158; and Annabella’s purchase of Fordhook, 174; and Annabella’s recourse to religion, 180n; Annabella praises Lord King (Lovelace) to, 203, 297; Annabella admits to wellbeing, 206; and Annabella’s concern for teachers’ status, 232; and Annabella’s popular reception in Kirkby Mallory, 233; and Annabella’s concern for Medora, 244; death, 292
Siddons, Lizzie (Mrs Arthur Mair), 146, 165n, 167, 192–7
Siddons, Sarah, 15, 35, 116, 146
Silsbee, Edward, 457
Singer, G.S., 303
Singh, Duleep, 350n
Six Mile Bottom, near Cambridge: Augusta’s home in, 44, 47, 63; Byron visits, 66, 78, 91; Annabella stays at, 78–80
slavery: abolition, 430–1
Smith, Charles (‘Carlo’), 177n
Smith, Fanny see Noel, Fanny
Smith, Julia, 382, 400, 438
Somerville, Martha and Mary (Mary’s daughters), 183, 209–10, 219
Somerville, Mary: Ada meets, 182–3, 186; qualities and achievements, 183–5; teaches Ada mathematics, 186, 194, 196, 218–19; and Annabella’s visit to Babbage, 191–2; letter from Ada on Babbage’s machine, 192; discussion with Babbage, 194–5, 261; regard for Ada, 198; proposes Lord King as husband for Ada, 199, 201–2; Ada discusses sexual life with, 208; spends Christmas at Ockham Park, 209; Ada reveres, 218–19, 226; organises new telescope for Ada, 218, 226; counsels patience to Ada, 219, 224; moves to Italy, 219, 223, 363; translates Laplace, 262; compliments Ada on Babbage article, 293; instructed not to burn Annabella’s letter, 408; letter from Annabella on Babbage, 408–9; young Annabella visits in Florence, 419; On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 185, 187, 297
Somerville, William, 184, 186, 209, 219
Sontag, Henriette, 349
Sopwith, Sir Thomas, 463
South, Sir James, 367
Southey, Robert, 303
Sowerby, James, 19
Sparrow, Lady Olivia, 129
Staël, Anne Louise Germain Necker, Baronne de, 257, 423
Stamp, Charlotte (governess), 156, 158, 160, 338
Stephen, Sir Leslie, 457–8, 462
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: and Annabella’s relations with
