Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham 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 George Gordon, Lord Byron. 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
Lord Byron in popular culture Lord Byron in popular culture English writer Lord Byron has been mentioned in numerous media. A few examples of his appearances in literature, film, music, television and theatre are listed below. Byron first appeared as a thinly disguised character in "Glenarvon", by his former lover Lady Caroline Lamb, published in 1816. (It was her summary of him, "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", that is perhaps still the most quoted.) The Spanish poet Gaspar Núñez de Arce wrote "Última lamentación de Lord Byron" ("The last lamentation of Lord Byron"), a long soliloquy on the miseries of the world, the existence