Surrey Institution, Blackfriars, 187
Sutherland, Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 432
Swan Walk, Chelsea, 456
Swift (ship), 341, 343–5
Tablet, The (journal), 451
Taillefer, Elie (Medora’s son), 276n
Taillefer, Georges, 276
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 179
Tamworth, Sophia (Sophy), Viscountess (née Curzon): marriage, 4, 13; on Annabella’s upbringing, 7; inheritance from brother, 7; and Mrs George Lamb, 23; Annabella stays with, 42–3; Annabella’s devotion to, 153; death, 335–6
Taunton Courier, 302
Taylor, Richard, 258, 261, 264, 275, 377
Telford, Thomas, 187
Temple Bar (magazine), 445, 452
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron, 151
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair, 323
Thomas, John, 238, 329
Thorwaldsen, Bertel, 317–18
Ticknor, George, 88–90, 176, 206
Tower, Ernest, 422n Tower, Isabella, 13, 422n
Trevanion, Georgiana (née Leigh; Augusta’s daughter), 44, 83, 163, 165, 169, 171 & n, 234
Trevanion, Henry: marriage to Georgiana Leigh, 162–3, 265; deceives Annabella and Augusta, 164; edits Byron’s letters, 164; affair and children with Medora Leigh, 169–70, 235, 275; in France, 171, 234; and Annabella’s support for Medora, 235; Medora lies about, 236
Tryon, Lady Winifred, 463
Turin: scientific conference (1840), 222–3
Turing, Alan, 373
Turner, William, 177n, 193
Unitarianism, 10, 284, 285, 317
United States of America: slavery and abolitionism in, 430–1, 439
Vanloo, Catherine, 8
Varley, Cornelius, 151
Victoria, Queen, 216, 343
Victory, HMS, 394
Villiers, Theresa, 57, 83, 118, 134, 237, 358, 389
Voltigeur (racehorse), 348, 354–5
Voysey, Charles, 456
Wächter, Miss (young Annabella’s governess), 338–9, 342, 379–80
Wallace, William, 189
Wallis, Revd Richard, 10, 71
Watt, James: steam engine, 190
Watts (dancing master), 3
Webb, Mary, 432
Wedderburn Webster, Lady Frances, 48, 49n
Weekes, W.H., 304, 311
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 179, 195, 330, 340
Wentworth estates, 418
Wentworth barony, 439n
Wentworth, Ada Mary King-Noel (Molly; Ralph’s daughter), 14th Baroness, 455, 463
Wentworth, Fannie, Lady (née Heriot; Ralph’s wife), 447, 455–6
Wentworth House, 456, 464
Wentworth, Judith Anne Dorothea King, 16th Baroness, 455, 463–4
Wentworth, Mary, Lady (née Stuart-Wortley; later Countess of Lovelace; Ralph’s second wife), 456, 460, 461n, 462
Wentworth, Mary, Viscountess (née Ligonier), 7–8, 55
Wentworth, Ralph Gordon King, 13th Baron (later 2nd Earl of Lovelace; Ada’s son): birth, 211; upbringing and education, 315–16, 336, 363, 376, 418; sent to Hofwyl, 337; separated from sister, 342; rejoins family after brother’s departure, 343; letter from brother in Chile, 345; spends Christmas 1850 with mother, 363; Ada’s concern for, 372n; scarlet fever, 377–8, 379; on effect of Annabella’s harsh letters to Lovelace, 401; Annabella praises, 417; restrictions on, 418–19; relations with uncle Peter Locke King, 419; inheritance from grandmother, 436–7; instructed to add Noel and Milbanke to surname, 437; prevents Harriet Martineau’s proposed biography of Annabella, 440; succeeds to Wentworth barony, 440; retrieves mother’s papers and plans published account of grandparents’ marriage, 441–2; and posthumous writings on Annabella, 444; acquires letters between Ada and Lady Bron, 445; marriage to Fannie, 447; reads Harriet Becher Stowe’s article on Annabella, 447–8; defends grandmother’s reputation, 451, 457–8; birth of daughter Ada Mary, 455; concern about family papers, 456–7; second marriage (to Mary Stuart-Wortley), 456; and father’s difficulties over estates and property, 459n; withdraws from editing Byron’s letters, 460; death, 461; Astarte, 436, 458n, 460–21; Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs, 458
Wentworth, Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount: leaves property to sister Judith, 7; as Annabella’s prospective benefactor, 19–20, 84; death, 83–4, 88; grandchildren disinherited, 154
West, Dr, 390
Westminster Review, 311–12
Wharton & Ford (solicitors), 93, 331
Wheatstone, Charles: Ada discusses science with, 246, 250, 279, 300; attends mesmerism meeting, 248; and Ada’s translation of Italian paper, 258, 261–2; supports Ada in dispute with Babbage, 277; encourages Ada, 279, 294, 301; inventions, 295; measures electrical usage (‘the Wheatstone bridge’), 295; suggests Ada as science advisor to Prince Albert, 295; praises Ada to Faraday, 297; Ada corresponds with, 349; attends Royal Society dinner, 374
Whewell, William: on Mary Somerville, 187; tutors Woronzow Greig and Lord King, 199; friendship with De Morgan, 224; grants place in Wren Library for Byron statue, 318n; Bridgewater Treatise, 180–1, 186, 218
White, Joseph Blanco, 325
Wilberforce, William, 233
Wildman, Colonel Thomas, 162, 352–3, 357, 388, 400
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner, 248–9, 380
William IV, King of Great Britain, 176, 179
Wilmot, Robert, 119–20, 128
Wilson, John, 416n
Wilson, Mary, 330, 334–5, 350, 356, 367, 382–3, 388, 407–8
Wilson, Stephen, 350, 407
Woburn Park, 201, 212–13, 463
Wolfram, Stephen, 267
Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 449
Wordsworth, Christopher, 327
Wordsworth, William, 302
Wyndham, Henry, 164, 170
Young, Edward: Night Thoughts, 11
Zetland, Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of, 348, 354–5, 412n
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