The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-06-13
Death Of Lady Byron,

We learn by the Glasgow that on the 18th
instant, Lady Byron, the widow OF the great
poet, died at London, in the sixty sixth year
OF her age. She was born in 1894, and was
the only daughter and heir of Sir Ralph Mil
banke Noel, Baronet. In 1856 she succeed.
ed to the barony of Wentworth. She was
married to Lord Byron in lSl5-the union
proving, as is we'll known, most unhappy to
both husband and wife, and he lived with bis
wife only some thirteen days. Their only
child,
Ada, sole daughter of my house and heart,''
wOs married to Earl Lovelace, and died eigh,
years ago.
The marriage of Byron with Miss Milbs ke
was one prompted by motives Of interest
Lord Byron, in one of his letters, gives
the following description of Lady Byron,
during the time of their engagement
"What an odd situation and friendship i;
| ours! Without one spark of love on eithe
side, and produced by circumstances which
in general, lead to codness on one side, an
aversion on the other. She is q very SUP.
erior woman, and very little spoiled, whic
is strange in an heirass-a girl Of twenty
apeeress that is to be in her own right-al
only child, and Savdnte who has Away.
had her own way. She is poeless, ,
mathematician, and withal, very kind, gen.
erous and gentle, and with very little pre-
tension"
Even at his wedding, the thoughts of hi.
first love-of Mary Chnworth of Ann esly
Hall, whom he so POLITICALLY termed hi:
Bright Morning Star of Amnesty" was
present to his imagination. Amnesty Hal
and al its fond associations foated like ,
vision before his thoughts, even when at ,ht
altar, and on the point of pronouncing hi
nuptial vows. A marriage contracted under
such Circumstances could not but be unhappy
The poet has alluded to it in some of hi
most impassioned strains of regret. Wash
ington Irving says that in one of bis manu-
scripts, written long after his marriage
having accidentally mentioned Miss Cha
worth as my "M. A. c." ""alas 7" exclaim;
he, with sudden burst of feeling, "wby dt
| say my! Our union would have healet
feuds, in which blood had been shed by ou,
fathers; it would have joined lands, broac
and rich; it would have joined at least one
heart, and two persons not ill.matched ir
years, d-and-and-wh1t has been tht
result !"
1t is uu fortunate for the late Lady Byron
that only by her union with Byron and it
unhappy results, is she known to the worlt
at large. Her private life has been ruth
lessly Invaded, and all her domestic trou-
bles exposed to the gaze of the world. |
should be remembered that Byron treated
her in manner calculated to ALLEVIATE the
objections of any woman, and that it was
the public odum following his treatment O
her, which induced him to leave England
and live in Italy.
Lady Byron took an active interest il
philanthroplc and benevolent movements
and in 1856 she sent gift of three hundred
and fifty dollars to the New England Kan
sas Emigration Society. We can scarcely
recall lady of the present century whose
name has been so often brought before tht
public, and in such singular way, by he
relations with others, rather than by any
desire or effort on her part to obtain pub
licity.