XJF150850 Portrait of Augusta Ada Byron (1815-52) Countess of Lovelace (oil on canvas) (b/w photo) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ada Lovelace lived at Ockham Park. Only legitimate child of George Gordon, Lord Byron. She was a genius for math from an early age and met Charles Babbage in 1833. She became interested in a model he had constructed of a mechanical device to compute values of quadratic functions, the Difference Engine. Ada translated an article by an Italian engineer Manabrea on Babbage??? Analytical Engine and added notes of her own which showed how the Analytical Engine would work including a set of instructions for using the Engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers. In 1835 Ada married William King, later the first Earl of Lovelace); English, out of copyright.