LEIGH

August a Mary (only dau. of Capt. John Byron d. Valencienne, France 2 Aug. 1791, by his wife the barone Conyers). b. 26 Jany. 1783; half sister of George Gordon, lord Byron, the only relative for whom he retained any affection, to whom some of his poems are dedicated, and the last person to whom he wrote a letter. m. 17 Aug. 1807 her cousin George Leigh lieut.-col. of 10 light dragoons, he d. May 1850; accused by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an article in the Atlantic Monthly of Sep. 1869 of having committed incest with her brother in 1814, but no one believed the accusation; under Byron’s will of 29 July 1815 she inherited all her brother’s disposable property, Lady Byron being already well provided for. d. Marl borough court, St. James’ palace, London 12 Oct. 1851. H. B. Stowe’s Lady Byron vindicated (1870); C. Mackay’s Medora Leigh (1869); The true story of lord and lady Byron in answer to Mrs. Stowe (1869), portrait .