William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace

William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, FRS (21 February 1805 – 29 December 1893), styled the Honourable William King until 1833 and Lord King from 1833 to 1838, was an English nobleman and scientist.

For other people named William King, see William King (disambiguation).

The Right Honourable

The Earl of Lovelace

FRS
Born(1805-02-21)21 February 1805
Died29 December 1893(1893-12-29) (aged 88)
Spouses
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(m. 1835; died 1852)​
  • Jane Jenkins
Children
Parent(s)Peter King, 7th Baron King
Lady Hester Fortescue

Early life and background

Lovelace was the eldest son of Peter King, 7th Baron King, and his wife, Lady Hester Fortescue, granddaughter of George Grenville. The politician the Hon. Peter John Locke King was his younger brother.

Educated at Eton and Trinity, he entered the diplomatic service and became secretary to Lord Nugent. He succeeded in the barony in 1833 when his father died.[1] He performed architectural work in his houses.[2]

He was created Viscount Ockham and Earl of Lovelace in 1838, and appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey in 1840, a post he held until his death.[3] On 25 November 1841, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society.[4] He was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia on 14 August 1852. He resigned this command on 11 April 1870, when he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the regiment (which became the 3rd Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), a position he held until his death.[3][5][6] In 1860, he adopted the additional surname of "Noel".

Ben Damph Estate

In 1886, the Earl purchased Ben Damph Lodge and its surrounding 12,000 acre sporting estate at the east end of Loch Torridon,[7][8] in Ross-shire, Scotland. In 1889, he became a promoter of the Aultbea Railway.[9]

William King-Noel circa 1860

Notes
  1. "The Barons King & Earls of Lovelace | Lyon & Turnbull". www.lyonandturnbull.com. 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. The Lovelace title was chosen to mark the fact that Ada was, through the families of Byron, Milbanke, Noel and Lovelace, a descendant of the Barons Lovelace of Hurley
  2. "East Horsley, William King – 1st Earl of Lovelace". Exploring Surrey's Past. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020. Lovelace became famous in his time for the arched trusses in the collar roof of his banqueting hall which had been bent by the application of steam heat. This process was one on which Lord Lovelace became an authority. He delivered a paper to the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1849, two years after his banqueting hall was built, and received praise from no less a person than the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
  3. Burke's: 'Lovelace'.
  4. "Fellow details". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  5. Davis, Appendix A.
  6. 'Army List', various dates.
  7. "Local History | Activities at Ben Damph – Torridon – North West Scotland". www.bendamph.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2016.
  8. "Torridon & Shieldaig – a history". www.stevecarter.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018.
  9. Drummond, Andrew (2020), A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway, Birlinn, pp. 161 & 162

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