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==Educational reformist and abolitionist== [[File:The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4| Lady Byron is to the far right of this painting of the 1840 [[World Anti-Slavery Convention]]]] Lady Byron committed herself to social causes, such as [[prison reform]] and the [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolition of slavery]]. In furtherance of the latter, Lady Byron attended the 1840 [[World Anti-Slavery Convention]], where she was one of the few women included in its commemorative painting.<ref name="npg">[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00224&rNo=0&role=sit The Anti-Slavery Society Convention] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165117/http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?LinkID=mp00224&rNo=0&role=sit |date=3 March 2016 }}, 1840, [[Benjamin Robert Haydon]], accessed 19 July 2008</ref><ref>The others were [[Elizabeth Pease Nichol|Elizabeth Pease]], [[Amelia Opie]], [[Anne Knight]], [[Mary Anne Rawson]], [[Mrs John Beaumont]], [[John Harfield Tredgold|Elizabeth Tredgold]], [[Thomas Clarkson]]'s daughter Mary and right at the back [[Lucretia Mott]].</ref> Lady Byron lived in [[Ealing]] between around 1822 and 1840, and established [[Ealing Grove School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ealingnewsextra.co.uk/history/lady-byron-ada-lovelace-ealing/ | title=Lady Byron, Ada Lovelace and Ealing | date=4 September 2017 | website=Ealing News Extra}}</ref>
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