Where was Ada Lovelace buried?

Ada Lovelace was buried at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.

Lovelace died on November 27, 1852, aged 36, after suffering from what contemporary accounts described as uterine cancer. At her request, she was buried beside her father, the poet Lord Byron, in the Byron family vault at the Hucknall church.

The church has medieval origins and was substantially restored and enlarged during the Victorian period. Its connection with the Byron family is one reason it became associated with both the famous poet and his mathematically gifted daughter. Ada’s grave is therefore in a parish church in Nottinghamshire, not in London’s better-known national monuments.

Highgate Cemetery, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey are plausible-looking alternatives because they contain many notable British graves, but none is Ada Lovelace’s resting place. Her burial beside Byron is the key identifying detail.