A statue honouring “formidable” 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace has been given the go ahead. The bronze statue will sit outside North Warwickshire And South Leicestershire College on Lower Bond Street in Hinckley after a campaign to raise money for the venture.

Ms Lovelace wrote the world’s first computer program during her work on the analytical engine – a proposed mechanical computer designed by Charles Babbage, who is often called the “father of computing”. Her groundbreaking work was studied by Alan Turing , and the first American computer language was named in her honour.

The daughter of poet Lord Byron, Lovelace was born in 1815 and spent the first six years of her life at Kirkby Mallory Hall a few miles from Hinckley. She is said to have loved the area and retu

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