Ada Byron Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth

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Ada Byron Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth (26 February 1871 – 18 June 1917) was a British peer.

Ada Byron Milbanke was the only acknowledge child of the Right Honourable Ralph Milbanke, Baron Wentworth and later Earl of Lovelace, the grandson of the poet Lord Byron, and his first wife Fannie Heriot. [1] [2] She was named after her paternal grandmother, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, mathematician and pioneer of computer programming.

Ada's parents separated shortly after her birth and her father petitioned for divorce on the grounds of her mother's adultery, although this was rejected in 1873. [3] Ada's mother died in 1878. [4] Ada was raised by her paternal aunt, Lady Anne (King) Blunt, co-owner of the internationally influential Crabbet Arabian Stud, a horse-breeding establishment with farms in the south of England and near Cairo, Egypt.

On the death of her father in 1906, Ada inherited the Barony of Wentworth of Nettlestead. She died unmarried and childless in 1917 and the title then passed to her aforementioned aunt, Lady Anne.

Notes

  1. ↑ Birth Registration: "England & Wales General Register Office"
    GRO Online Indexes - Birth (accessed 18 July 2023)
    Milbanke, Ada Byron (Mother's maiden name: Heriot).
    GRO Reference: 1871 Jul-Aug-Sep in Kensington Volume 01A Page 155.
  2. ↑ Seymour, Miranda (2018). In Byron's Wake. Simon & Schuster UK. p. 455. ISBN   978-1-4711-3859-1.
  3. ↑ Divorce petition: "England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918"
    The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files, J 77; Reference Number: J 77/125/2458
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  4. ↑ Mother's Death Registration: "England & Wales General Register Office"
    GRO Online Indexes - Death (accessed 18 July 2023)
    Milbanke, Fannie (Age at death: 24).
    GRO Reference: 1878 Jul-Aug-Sep in Croydon Volume 02A Page 120.
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Preceded by Baroness Wentworth
1906–1917		Succeeded by

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