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<p>Depicted person:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace" title="Ada Lovelace">Ada Lovelace</a><br></p>
 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace" class="extiw" title="en:Ada Lovelace">Ada Augusta Byron</a>, only daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron" class="extiw" title="en:Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>. She married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_King-Noel,_1st_Earl_of_Lovelace" class="extiw" title="en:William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace">William King</a> in 1835. They became earl and countess of Lovelace in 1838. Ada Lovelace was an avid mathematician and is often called the first computer programmer, after she wrote an algorithm for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Babbage">Charles Babbage</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine" class="extiw" title="en:Analytical Engine">Analytical Engine</a>.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Margaret_Sarah_Carpenter" class="extiw" title="w:en:Margaret Sarah Carpenter"><span title="painter from Great Britain (1793-1872)">Margaret Sarah Carpenter</span></a>
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1836<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1836-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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