Daughter
As Ada grew, Lady Byron feared she might inherit Byron's behaviors and dark moods. She schooled Ada in science and mathematics and discouraged literary study. Though her effort was great, it eventually seemed in vain. Ada Lovelace embodied many of her father's rebellious qualities. She is also considered to have been the world's first computer programmer, having written the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine--Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
She married at nineteen years of age, had three children, and amassed considerable gambling debts before dying from cancer on November 27, 1852. Lady Byron attended her daughter's deathbed, where she refused Ada opiates on the grounds that they would cloud her mind too much for repentance. Ada Lovelace was thirty-six years old when she died (the same age as Lord Byron when he died).
Read more about this topic: Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron
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