There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

Who the Mormaer or King was at this time is not known, it may have been Óengus of Moray or his father, whose name is not known.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyta, whose magical girdle, given to her by her father Ares, was the object of one of the labours of Hercules.

He was the son of Marcius ( whose father, also named Marcius, had been a close friend of Numa Pompilius ) and Pompilia ( daughter of Numa Pompilius ).

He was a descendant of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, one of whose five sons was Joseph, the grandfather of Abba Mari, who, like his son Moses, the father of Abba Mari, was highly respected for both his rabbinical learning and his general erudition.

He succeeded his father as Emir of Córdoba in 822 and engaged in nearly continuous warfare against Alfonso II of Asturias, whose southward advance he halted ( 822 – 842 ).

He married the heiress of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, whose father had inherited the castle and estate of Abergavenny, and was summoned in 1392 to parliament as Lord Bergavenny.

He makes no reference to individual members of the harem except for a domineering Queen consort named Amestris, whose father, Otanes, was one of Xerxes's generals.

Alternative attempts have been made to identify her with Esther, although Esther is an orphan whose father was a Jew named Abihail.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

The young emperor was raised by the regent, Bayram Khān, an Iranian statesman whose father and grandfather had joined Babur's service.

Soon after that, in May 2002, the former liberal politician of conservative leanings Álvaro Uribe, whose father had been killed by left-wing guerrillas, was sworn in as Colombian president.

His paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes ( 1866 – 1921 ).

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

* " Ruhi's sister married Covenant-breaker Faydi whose mother joined and supported arch-enemy Muhammad -` Ali and whose father ` Abdu ' l-Bahá denounced openly and repeatedly as His deadly enemy.

His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.

Johannes Brahms, whose father was a double bass player, wrote many difficult and prominent parts for the double bass in his symphonies.

Danny and Sylvia discovered that the dentist whose office he had been hired to watch was Sylvia's father, Samuel Fine.

Eleven-year-old Leon Leenhoff, whose father may have been either of the Manets, posed often for Manet.

The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.

`` But why in the name of God can't I give my father blood ''??

it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

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It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

He acquired the name Pius after his accession to the throne, either because he compelled the Senate to deify his adoptive father Hadrian, or because he had saved senators sentenced to death by Hadrian in his later years.

Walter Quin, tutor to the future Charles I, worked hard on multilingual anagrams on the name of father James.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.

The name of the group is derived from the Arabic ابو, abu (" father of ") and sayyaf (" Swordsmith ").

The " goat-man " who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens.

Suggestions made to resolve the difficulty — e. g. that father and son each bore the same double name, or that Abiathar officiated during his father's lifetime and in his father's stead — have been supported by great names, but have not been fully accepted.

New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar, the name first given in Daniel 5: 1, as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

As for the identity of Mordecai, the similar names Marduka and Marduku have been found as the name of officials in the Persian court in over thirty texts from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might after all be Mordecai.

The name Cushi, Zephaniah ’ s father, means ‘ Ethiopian ’.

This however was overturned after her death, as Willy ’ s son from a prior relationship, Jacques Gauthier-Villars, sued to have his father ’ s name restored, which was carried out.

Camp David received its present name from Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and grandson, both named David.

" Upham's book runs to almost 1, 000 pages and a quick search of the name Mather ( referring to either father, son, or ancestors ) shows that it occurs only 96 times ; Poole's critique, in book form, runs less than 70 pages but the name " Mather " occurs many times that.

She uses the fanciful name Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV, but an odd encounter with her father reveals that her real name is Françoise Appledelhi.

His father, Jones recounts, would start every new business venture by purchasing new stationery and new pencils with the company name on them.

Thomas ' father chose the name Dylan, which could be translated as " son of the sea ", after Dylan ail Don, a character in The Mabinogion.