Ada Lovelace was born December 10th, 1815! She was born in Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex(Which is now in london) In 1835, Lovelace married William King with whom she had three children. They socialized with famous people of the time including Michael Faraday and Charles Dickens. However, Lovelace continued to fall ill with breathing and digestive problems. She took months to recover after the birth of her second child and suffered rheumatic attacks.
She was the first computer programmer. Mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage, known as “the father of computers,” became a mentor and friend to Lovelace. Babbage was credited with creating the first automatic digital computer, the “Analytical Engine.” An Italian engineer wrote an article about Babbage’s work in French and Babbage gave the article to Lovelace to translate. Not only did Lovelace translate the original French text to English, but she provided her own input, ultimately writing that the machine could be programmed to follow a list of instructions. She hypothesized this programming could work with other things besides numbers.
Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two months after her birth. Her father then left Britain forever, and his daughter never knew him personally. Lord Byron moved to Greece where he died when Ada was eight years old Her father, had had been accused of taking his half-sister to be his mistress, and the controversy surrounding this ended his marriage to Ada’s mother, less than 5 weeks after Ada had been born. Her mother apparently did not want her daughter to turn out like her father, and therefore taught her disdain for her artistic talents, and instead nurtured her mathematical and scientific abilities. Her mother had mathematical training and insisted that Ada, who was tutored privately, study mathematics, an unusual education for a woman during this time period.