Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham

British peer and naval officer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish peer and naval officer
A.K.A.Byron King-Noel, 12th Baron Wentworth Byron King-Noel, 12th Lord Wentworth
A.K.A.Byron King-Noel, 12th Baron Wentworth Byron King-Noel, 12th Lord Wentworth
PlacesUnited Kingdom
wasNoble Peer
Work fieldReligion Royals
Gender
Male
Birth12 May 1836
Death1 September 1862 (aged 26 years)
Star signTaurus
Family
Mother:Ada Lovelace
Father:William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace
Siblings:Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth Lionel King, 3. Earl of Lovelace
The details

Biography

Byron King-Noel, 12th Baron Wentworth, styled Viscount Ockham (12 May 1836 – 1 September 1862) was a British peer and the eldest of the three legitimate grandchildren of poet Lord Byron.

Early life

Lord Ockham was the eldest son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and his wife, Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. His maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth. He gained the rank of officer in the service of the Royal Navy, although he deserted, worked his passage back to Britain and became a shipyard worker - probably working for the Blyth shipping chandlers (Limehouse).

Death

As his mother predeceased her own mother, he inherited the barony of Wentworth from his grandmother, but two years later died unmarried and childless at the age of 26, and his barony passed to his brother, Ralph, who was then styled Viscount Ockham and later inherited the earldom.

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