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    Augusta Maria Leigh (née Byron; 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851) was the only surviving daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father...
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    Elizabeth Medora Leigh (15 April 1814 – 28 August 1849) was the third daughter of Augusta Leigh. It is widely speculated that she was fathered by her mother's...
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    gave birth to a girl. The child was named after Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh, and was called "Ada" by Byron himself. On 16 January 1816, at Lord...
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    who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh. George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on...
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    dark and he began to drink heavily. In a letter to his half-sister, Augusta Leigh, he stated his suspicions that his wife had broken the lock on his desk...
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  • writer Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932), Irish dramatist and folklorist Augusta Leigh (1783–1851), half-sister of George Gordon Byron Augusta Löwenhielm...
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    an unnamed boy, and Augusta Maria Byron. Sophia and the unnamed boy died in infancy; Augusta Byron went on to marry George Leigh. Amelia died in London...
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  • "delicate". Alex Leigh (born 1978), English fashion model Augusta Leigh (1783–1851), only daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron Benjamin W. Leigh (1781–1849),...
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  • Theatre. June–July – Visited Leigh Hunt at Maida Vale, London. 29 July – Signed new will leaving estate residue to Augusta Leigh. October – Wrote Siege of...
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    Milbanke and the scandal over his relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh, made it very clear to Clairmont before he left that she would not be...
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  • Il corsaro, and Adam's ballet Le Corsaire Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of Augusta Leigh and possible daughter of Lord Byron Medora Vallambrosa, Marquise...
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    an embarrassment. Byron asked his half-sister Augusta Leigh to take Allegra into her household, but Leigh refused. Hostile to Clairmont and initially sceptical...
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    Berenice (daughter of Herod Agrippa) Lord Byron and his half-sister Augusta Leigh Lucrezia Borgia and her full brother Cesare Borgia Patrick Stübing and...
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    Separation and Exile on the Continent. Byron by John Nichol. Letter to Augusta Leigh, Milan, 15 October 1816. Lord Byron's Letters and Journals, Chapter...
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  • Wife Finley Descotes 2002 Man and Boy Gina Silver TV film 2003 Byron Augusta Leigh TV film The Crooked Man Lisa Talbot TV film 2004 Vanity Fair Lady Jane...
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  • Glenister William Fletcher Vanessa Redgrave Lady Melbourne Natasha Little Augusta Leigh Camilla Power Lady Caroline Lamb Julie Cox Annabella Millbanke Oliver...
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  • at his disposal, that Byron's relations with his half-sister, Mrs. Augusta Leigh, were criminal, and that she was the Astarte of the poet's Manfred....
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    within the church. The 1905 novel The Marriage of William Ashe by Mary Augusta Ward was based on Lady Caroline and her husband. The 1964 historical novel...
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    improprieties and an incestuous affair between Byron and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. Attacked by the press and ostracised by London society, Byron fled...
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  • their friendship and left Newstead. Byron wrote to his half-sister, Augusta Leigh: "I am not reconciled to Lord Grey, and I never will. He was once my...
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    remorse, and lust of two illicit love affairs, one with his half-sister Augusta Leigh and the other with Lady Frances Webster. The earliest version of the...
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    John "Mad Jack" Byron, father of Lord Byron, and had one daughter, Augusta Leigh. Great Britain in the Seven Years War "D'Arcy, Robert" . Dictionary...
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    Twickenham on 18 September 1779). Unnamed son (died at birth, ca. 1780/81). Augusta Maria Byron (26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851). A year after the birth...
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    Francis. Through her mother's remarriage, she was a half-sister to Augusta Leigh. Lady Mary married the future earl on 16 July 1801 at Lambeth Palace...
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    turbulent, unlucky life: he wrote in an epistle to his half-sister Augusta Leigh that "he had no rest at sea, nor I on shore". John Byron's experiences...
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    Port Augusta (Goordnada in the revived indigenous Barngarla language) is a small coastal city in South Australia about 310 kilometres (190 mi) by road...
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    Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster. Hon. Augusta Leigh (1825-1893), never married. Died Scarborough. Hon. Mary Leigh (1826–1906), who married Reverend Hon...
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    other things, of his alleged incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Here he joined Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley, with his secretary John...
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    Separation and Exile on the Continent. Byron by John Nichol. Letter to Augusta Leigh, Milan, 15 October 1816. Lord Byron's Letters and Journals, Chapter...
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    William Mason as incumbent had leased to them. He wished his half-sister Augusta Leigh to come too, but she refused, despite the family connection that Aston...
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