Born in 1815, Ada Byron was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord Byron.

Unlike her famous father, Ada did not pursue a literary career.

Guided by her mother, she took a diametrically different path studying math and logic.

At the age of 17 she had a chance encounter with Charles Babbage who was designing the world's first mechanical computer.

It was the beginning of a groundbreaking collaboration that would only be understood over a century later.

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Her father, George Gordon Byron, was one of the best known English

poets of the Romantic era. He actually came upon his title, The Fifth Baron of Byron in 1798

at the age of 10, from a great uncle who died without any heirs.

While a brilliant poet, he developed a reputation as being an agnostic and a libertine, which was

scandalous in the early 19th century. Aedha's mother, Annabelle Millbank, grew up in a strict religious household.

She was tutored in mathematics and science,

and her marriage to the poet Lord Byron was considered by many to be a very odd pairing.

It turns out that what many people thought about the relationship

turned out to be right.

As brilliant of a poet as Lord Byron was,

he was horrible as a husband and father. Just one month after Ada was born,

her mother took her to live with her family because Lord Byron refused to stop having an affair with an

actress he was seeing. At the time in England if a couple were to

separate custody of any children would be given to the father. Lord Byron however didn't

challenge the custody and never saw his daughter again.

The couple legally separated but remained technically married until Lord Byron's death in 1824 in Greece,

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