The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-03
THE EARL WHO WON BYRoN's
ADA.
"Childe Harold's" Son-in-Law Has
Died, Forgotten by thu World.
From the St T,ouis Renuhiic


From the st. Louis Republic.
The first Earl of Lovelace recently died
in England at the age of SO years. His
death would have passed with the most
casual notice but for one incident in his
life He was the son-in-law of Byron.
He was the husband of Ada, Lord By
rou's only daughter-"Ada, sole daugh ter
of my house and heart" as she is cele-
brated in "Cnilde Harold"
She died years ago, and as far as the
man who made her his wife, he was as
utterly dead to the world at large for the
past two generations as she.
Yet, for almost half a century, he was
lord lieutenant of Surrey, and lived a
quietly active life in discharging his civic
duties. In the details of county govern
ment he was most prOsaically energetic
to the last of his days, and in his 85th
year this son-in-law of "Childe Harold i"
who had himself painted in Greek cos
tune after Lord Bryon as a crusader
went out among the dOwntrodden Greeks
10 free them-and die among them-was
elected an alderman of the county, and
frequently travelled all night III order to
attend important meetings
The trouble between Lord and Lady
Bryon had already begun when Ada,
The child of love-though born in bitter.
ness, and nurtured in CONFUSION
made her appearance in this world Dec.
10, 1915. Augusta Ada was her full name,
the former being given in honor Of her
aunt and godmother, The Hon. Mrs.
Leigh
She seems to have been the only link in
the very slight chain that held Byron to
his wife. But even that soon snapped.
Once in awhile after Byron's desertion of
Adas mother he would write to the
mother OF the child to make inquiries af-
ter the little girl.
There is no doubt that Byron's heart
went OUT towards Ada. and that he longed
to hear from her,even though he could not
see her. Byron's half sister, Augusta
Leigh, was used as the medium through
which he could get news both OF the
child's health and character. Augusta
asked the questions for her brother and
Lady Byron answered them.
There is not much known of Ada. She
does not seem to have shown any of her
fathers literary genius nor her mothers
peculiarities of temper. When she was
old enough she married Lord Lovelace.
who was five years her senior and whose
death brings these things again to mind
after all these years.
Although very little is known of Lord
Lovelace in this country, he was a man OF
no ordinary ability, and seems TO have had
his distinguished father in-law's passion
for Greece. He took the gold medal for
oratory at Cambridge, and entered upon
public life as soon as he left college, when
ne was appointed secretary of the Indian
Islands Commission, of which Lord NJ
gent was the head. For his services in
connection with this commission, Mr.
King-Noll, who had succeeded his father
as the eighth Baron King in 1888, was
created Viscoant Ockham and Earl of
Lovelace in 1888.
Lord Loyelace was man of many at
tainments He was equally interested in
architecture, forestry, engineering and
practical local government; and in his
early Gays he had given much attention
to Oriental research, had travelled up the
Nile at time when such a expedition
was uncommon for Europeans, had fluent
command Of modern Greek and knew in