Because of this, she is often considered the world's first computer programmer. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
Anne Isabella Milbanke, 11th Baroness WentworthĪugusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). "Milbanke, Ralph Gordon Noel King, second earl of Lovelace (1839–1906)". Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement . This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1912).Harry Worsfold (1839-1939): ‘The life and times of a gentleman of Surrey’. Unjustifiable Risk?: The Story of British Climbing. The earldom of Lovelace devolved on his half-brother Lionel Fortescue King, son of the first earl by his second wife. Lovelace's daughter, Ada Mary, by his first wife, succeeded to her father's barony of Wentworth. Anne's, Newcastle second on 10 December 1880, to Mary Caroline, eldest daughter of the Rt. He was twice married: first on 25 August 1869, to Fanny (died 1878), third daughter of George Heriot, vicar of St. Lovelace died very suddenly at Ockham Park, Ripley, Surrey, on 28 August 1906.Īfter cremation at Woking his ashes were buried in the King chapel over the family vault in Ockham church. He also cited a letter in support of his conclusion from Sir Leslie Stephen, who had examined the papers. Lushington, Sir Robert Willmot, and Sir Francis Doyle, and various extracts from correspondence. Lovelace printed a statement signed in 1816 by Dr. Augusta Leigh, were criminal, and that she was the Astarte of the poet's Manfred. Lovelace alleged, on evidence of hitherto undivulged papers left by Lady Byron, and now at his disposal, that Byron's relations with his half-sister, Mrs. This vigorous if somewhat uncritical polemic purported to be a vindication of Lovelace's grandmother, Lady Byron, from the aspersions made upon her after the "revelations" of Mrs. In 1906, he privately printed Astarte: A Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, first Lord Byron, dedicated to M. In 1898, he succeeded his father as second earl of Lovelace. His intimate acquaintance with French, German, and English literature was combined with a fine taste in music and painting. Īn accomplished linguist, he was especially conversant with Swiss and Tyrolese dialects. In early life he was a bold Alpine climber, he spent much time in the Alps, and in 1887 made the first ascent of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey with his guide, Emile Rey, :89 A peak of the Dolomites also bears his name. Taking little part in public life, he read widely and showed independent if rather erratic judgment.Īt the age of twenty-two he spent a year in Iceland, and was a zealous student of Norse literature.
He had assumed the surname of Milbanke, Lady Byron's maiden surname, by royal licence on 6 November 1861. On 1 September 1862, upon the death of his elder brother, Byron Noel, Viscount Ockham, who had succeeded his grandmother, Lady Byron, as twelfth Baron Wentworth, Ralph himself became thirteenth Baron Wentworth. Subsequently educated privately, he matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1859, but did not graduate. ĭuring 1847-8, Ralph was a pupil at Wilhelm von Fellenberg's Pestalozzian school at Hofwyl, near Berne.
He was lord-lieutenant of Surrey from 1840 to his death in 1903, and interested himself in agricultural and mechanical engineering. The father, who succeeded as eighth Baron King in 1833, was created Earl of Lovelace on 30 June 1838. James's Square, London on 2 July 1839, the second son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, and, Ada Augusta, daughter of the poet, the 6th Lord Byron. Ralph Gordon King Noel Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace (2 July 1839 – 28 August 1906) was a British author of Astarte: A Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, first Lord Byron.
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