Talk:Ada Lovelace/2014/October

Augusta Byron
Should it note somewhere not to confuse Augusta Marie Byron with Augusta Ada Byron? I don't think this is something that should necessitate a disambiguation page, but maybe a small notation would be nice? Wikipedia pages for both Augusta Leigh and Ada Lovelace come up with a Google search of "Augusta Byron". It's a little confusing. Jmcclare (talk) 19:10, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

The lead rambles
None of this belongs in the lead, but it doesn't look easy to flip into the biography, so I'll leave it for the next editor who wants to take it on.

All Byron's other children were born out of wedlock to other women. Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever four months later, eventually dying of disease in the Greek War of Independence when Ada was eight years old. Ada's mother remained bitter at Lord Byron and promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing what she saw as the insanity seen in her father, but Ada remained interested in him despite this (and was, upon her eventual death, buried next to him at her request).

&mdash; MaxEnt 20:06, 20 October 2014 (UTC)