Who was Ada Lovelace?

Heard of the school Ada Lovelace but don't know who she was? Here we are with another storytime and this time with a pinch of girl power.

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of world-famous poet Lord Byron and his wife, a Victorian social campaigner and school benefactor Anne Isabella Milbanke. Ada Byron, who later became Countess Lovelace, lived at Fordhook, near the junction of Byron Road and Fordhook Avenue W5. She was a brilliant mathematician and writer and she is commonly credited with writing the first ever computer programme, or ‘algorithm’, a century before modern computers were ‘invented’. Pretty great claim to fame, Ealing!

There is a green plaque to Ada which was unveiled at Ealing Town Hall by the Earl of Lytton, a direct descendant of Ada Lovelace, on 9 May 2019. It has now been installed on the building occupied and owned by Grimshaw & Co Estate Agents at the junction of Fordhook Avenue and the Uxbridge Road W5 3LD.