Earl of Lovelace

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Coat of arms of the Earl of Lovelace
William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace
Ada Lovelace (painting by Margaret Sarah Carpenter ), 1836

Earl of Lovelace was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

The title was bestowed on June 30, 1838, to William King-Noel, 8th Baron King , along with the subordinate title Viscount Ockham , of Ockham in the County of Surrey . Both titles expired in 2018.

History of the title

The King and Locke-King families were descended from the descendants of Jerome King, a grocer from Exeter , and his wife Anne Locke, a great-niece of the philosopher John Locke . Their son was Peter King , a well-known lawyer and politician who was President (Chief Justice) of the Court of Common Pleas between 1724 and 1725 and then Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1725 to 1733 . In 1725 King was elevated to Baron King , of Ockham in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of Great Britain , and thus a member of the House of Lords .

After his death, his eldest son became 2nd Baron King. This was previously a member of the House of Commons and represented in this the constituencies of Launceston and Exeter . However, he died at the age of 34 without male offspring. He was then followed by his three younger brothers Peter, William and Thomas as 3rd, 4th and 5th Baron King, before finally the 5th Baron King was inherited by his son as the 6th Baron King.

His son, the 7th Baron King, was a Whigs politician and writer. After his death in 1833, his eldest son inherited the title of 8th Baron King. In 1835 he married his first wife Augusta Ada Byron , the only daughter of the poet George Gordon Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Noel-Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth , who was also a descendant of Baron Lovelace . Ada Lovelace was also a well-known mathematician and writer, best known for her work on the analytical engine designed by Charles Babbage .

In 1838 he was raised to Earl of Lovelace in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and received the subordinate title Viscount Ockham , which has since been used as a courtesy title by the eldest son of the respective earl as his title heir ( Heir Apparent ) . He was Lord Lieutenant of Surrey from 1840 to his death in 1893 . In 1852 his first wife Ada Lovelace died. In 1860 he took the additional family name and coat of arms of the Noel family with Royal License , after the mother of his first wife, Anne Isabella Noel-Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth . In 1865 he married Jane Crawford Jenkins for the second time and had a second son with her who later became 3rd Earl of Lovelace.

The Earl of Lovelace acquired Horsley Towers in East Horsley and was the patron of the local parish church during the rebuilding of the choir and nave in 1869. He also had the churchyard wall rebuilt, which also contained some architectural features such as the pavilion and the engraved family coat of arms. For 20 years he also began planning the construction of his mausoleum in the churchyard. He and his second wife are buried in the mausoleum, which has now been restored.

His eldest son Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham, succeeded his maternal grandmother, who died in 1860, as the 12th Baron Wentworth . As Baronie by writ , this title can also be inherited in the female line. However, he died two years later in 1862, around 30 years before his father. After the death of the 1st Earl of Lovelace, his second oldest surviving son inherited the title of 2nd Earl of Lovelace, who was 13th Baron Wentworth since the death of his older brother in 1862.

In 1861 this second eldest son had taken the surname Milbanke instead of the surname Noel with royal approval. He had no male offspring and was therefore the 14th Baroness Wentworth to be inherited by his only child, his daughter Ada King-Milbanke . The title fell after her to her aunt Annabelle Isabella Blunt as the 15th baroness.

The 2nd Earl of Lovelace was inherited by his half-brother after his death in 1906. In 1895 he had received royal approval to carry the additional families and the coat of arms of the Noel family for himself. However, since a license issued in 1908, he only carried the family name King for himself and his children. During the First World War he served as a major with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers . After his death in 1929, his son inherited the title of 4th Earl of Lovelace. He died in 1964, so that his son from his second marriage inherited the title of 5th Earl of Lovelace. With the childless death of the 5th Earl on January 31, 2018, the titles expired.

The country house Ockham Park has served as the family residence since the 1st Baron King , although it was largely destroyed in a fire in 1948. Since then, Torridon House in Torridon has served as the home of the families.

Another well-known family member was the second son of the 7th Baron King, Peter King , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1847 and 1874. He bought the Brooklands property , which his son Hugh F. Locke King expanded into an automobile racing and test track in 1906 .

List of Barons King and Earls of Lovelace

Barone King (1725)

Earls of Lovelace (1838)

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  1. ↑ Ana Lena Phillips: Crowdsourcing gender equity: Ada lovelace day, and its companion website, aims to raise the profile of women in science and technology . In: American Scientist , p. 99, No. 6, November – December 2011
  2. ↑ St Martin's Church
  3. ^ Exploring Surrey's Past