When Ada died - like her father, she was only 36 - great things seemed still to lie ahead for her as a passionate astronomer. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict, as nobody would do for another century, the dawn today of our modern computer age. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. Educated by some of the most learned minds in England, she combined that scholarly discipline with a rebellious heart and a visionary imagination. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron's little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits.
The one thing he had asked his wife to do was to make sure that their daughter never became a poet. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824, aged 36. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, the future Ada Lovelace. In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron.
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