Lord Byron, seen as one of the greatest British poets, was Ada Lovelace's father.
He married Ada's mother and called her the “Princess of Parallelograms” - but later, turned on his wife, mocking her in poetry as a "walking calculation".
After divorcing Ada's mother while carrying on an affair, he left England, never to see Ada or her mother again.
On his deathbed, he called for Ada and wished to see her.
Ada's mother, bitter about her abandonment by her cheating husband, set Ada to learning math and science rather than the poetry and arts that had scalded her with "walking poetry".
As a result, Ada was one of, if not the first, to conceive of how a computing machine might calculate algorithms, but she also deeply resented her mother.
Lord Byron would die at the age of 36 from a fever after participating in the Greek War of Independence against the then-Ottoman Empire. He is still regarded as a folk hero in Greece today.
Ada Lovelace would die at the age of 36 from cancer. She never met her father in adulthood - yet she requested to be buried next to her father in the Byron family vault, where they both rest together to this day.
