People/CharactersElizabeth Medora Leigh

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Byron by André Maurois
Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini
Lady Byron and Her Daughters by Julia Markus

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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 half-brother Lord Byron, although her mother's husband Colonel George Leigh was her official father.

As a young teenager, she was seduced by her brother in law, Henry Trevanion, unhappily married to her older sister Georgiana. Elizabeth became pregnant and their first child was given up for adoption. Henry and Elizabeth eloped to France after the miscarriage of the second. Elizabeth raised only the third, Marie Violette Trevanion, born in France. Henry and Elizabeth parted in 1838.

Leigh and her daughter were supported financially and emotionally for a number of years by Byron's former wife, Annabella Milbanke, and by Byron's only legitimate daughter, Ada Lovelace. Marie Violette would enter a convent in 1856.

After Trevanion left her, Leigh had an affair with a French officer who abandoned her. She ultimately ended up with his servant, former sergeant Jean-Louis Taillefer with whom she went to live in south Aveyron in Versols et Lapeyre. They had a son, Elie, (1846 -1900), who later became a Roman Catholic priest in Aveyron, and married on 23 August 1848

Elizabeth Medora Leigh in Wikipedia

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 half-brother Lord Byron, although her mother's husband Colonel George Leigh was her official father. As a young teenager, she was seduced by her brother in law, Henry Trevanion, unhappily married to her older sister Georgiana. Elizabeth became pregnant and their first child was given up for adoption. Henry and Elizabeth eloped to France after the miscarriage of the second. Elizabeth raised only the third, Marie Violette Trevanion, born in France. Henry and Elizabeth parted in 1838. Leigh and her daughter were supported financially and emotionally for a number of years by Byron's former wife, Annabella Milbanke, and by Byron's only legitimate daughter, Ada Lovelace. Marie Violette would enter a convent in 1856. After Trevanion left her, Leigh had an affair with a French officer who abandoned her. She ultimately ended up with his servant, former sergeant Jean-Louis Taillefer with whom she went to live in south Aveyron in Versols et Lapeyre. They had a son, Elie, (1846 -1900), who later became a Roman Catholic priest in Aveyron, and married on 23 August 1848 
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