Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-06-23
DEATH OF LADY BYRON.

18th ultimo, Lady Byron, the widow oI
the great poet, died at London, in the six
ty-sixth year of her age. She was born
in 1894, and was the only daughter and
heir of Sir Ralph Milbankc Noel, Baronet
In 1856 she succeeded to the baroney Of
Wentworth. She was married to hord
Byron in 1916, the union proving, as is
well known, most unhappy to both husband
and wife, ard he lived with his wife only
some thirteen days. Their only child
Ada, sole daughter of my house and heart
was married to Earl Lovelace, and died
eight years ago.
The marriage of Byron with Miss Mil
bankc, was one prompted by motives of in
tcrcst
Lord Byron, in one of his letters, gives
the following description Of Lady Byron,
during the time ef their engagement -
"What an odd situalion and friendship is
ours! Without one spark oflovc on either
side, and produced by circumstances which
in general, lead to coldnoss on one side,
and aversion on the other. She is very
superior woman, and very little spoiled
which is strange in an hcress-a girl Of
twenty-a pccress that is to be in her OWL
right--an only child, and Sar0ntee who
has always had her own way She is a
poetcss, a mathematician, and ,withal, very
kind, generous and gentle, and with very
little pretension,"
Even at his wedding, the thoughts Of
his first love--of Mary Chaworth of An.
nesly Hall, whom he so pooticall termed
his Bright Morning Star of Annosly,'
was present to his imagination, Amnesty
Hall and all its fond associations foated
like vision before his thoughts, ever
when at the altar, and on the point of pro.
nouneing his nuptial VOWS. a marriage
contracted under snch circumstances could
not but be unhappy. The poet has allu
dcd to it in some of his most .impassioncG
srains Of regret. Washington Irving sayl
that in one Of his manuscripts, writer
long after his marriage, having accidental
ly mentioned Miss Chaworth as my "M
A. C,""alas ~ exclaims he, with a sudde1
burst Of feeling, "why do l say my p
Our union would have healed feuds, il
which blood had been shed By our faith
crs; it would have joined lands broad and
rich; it would have joined at least on'
heart, and two persons not Unmatched il
years, and and-and-what has been
the result"
1t is unfortunate for the late Lady By
ron that only by her union with Byrol
and its unhappy results, is she known tc
the world at large. Her private life ha
Locn ruthlcssly invaded, and all her do
nestic troubles exposed to the gaze of tn,
world. 1t should be remembered that BY
ron treated hsr in manner calculated t.
ALLEVIATE the affections of any woman, ant
that it was the public odium following hi
treatment Of her, which induced him t
leave England and live in italy.
Lady Byron took an active interest il
philanthropic and benevolent movements
and in ls56 she sent a gift of three hun
dred and fifty dollars to the New England
Kansas Emigration Society. We can
scarcely recall Il lady of the present cen
tury whose name has been so often brough!
befor! the public, and in such singular
way, by her relations with others, rather
than by any desire Or effort on her part tc
obtain pub icity.