The words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these advantages; but, without either, he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!
-Frankenstein (1831)
It's fun to troll a certain class of head-up-their-ass classics scholars by pretending not to know who he was when his name comes up in conversation - then pretend to suddenly remember him as "Ada Lovelace's deadbeat dad".