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Augusta Leigh

(1784—1851)


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(1784–1851),

half‐sister of Lord Byron, daughter of his father by the latter's earlier marriage to Lady Carmarthen. Augusta's relations with Byron have been the subject of much speculation, and it is probable that he was the father of her daughter, Elizabeth Medora, born in 1814.

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