Death
Lady Byron died of breast cancer on May 16, 1860, the day before her 68th birthday. She was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery at Kensal Green in London. Prior to her death, she shared the story of her marriage to Byron with Harriet Beecher Stowe, who published the account in 1869. In the event, she all but destroyed Lord Byron's reputation. It was the first time anyone had published suspicions of an incestuous relationship between Byron and his half-sister.
Lady Byron's barony passed to her grandson Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham.
In her will she left a £300 legacy to the writer George MacDonald whom she had patronized during her life.
Read more about this topic: Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron
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