Shortly before his marriage, for example, his future father-in-law Colonel Joseph May helped him find a job teaching at a school in Boston run by the Society of Free Enquirers, followers of Robert Owen, for a lucrative $ 1, 000 to $ 1, 200 annual salary.

It is named after Robert R. Livingston, delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, after whom Montgomery County ( and similarly named counties in many other states ) were named.

There is, however, another major impediment — an affair with the young wife ( Katherine Balfour ) of an older businessman ( Robert H. Harris ), well-known to his former prospective father-in-law.

In 1810, Welsh social reformer Robert Owen, from Newtown in mid-Wales, and his partners purchased New Lanark mill from Owen's father-in-law David Dale and proceeded to introduce better labour standards including discounted retail shops where profits were passed on to his employees.

With the co-operation of Robert I, Count of Flanders, his father-in-law, Canute ordered an armada of 1, 000 Danish ships and 60 Norwegian ships to assemble at Struer in the Limfjord, northern Jutland, in the summer of 1085.

In 1825 he accompanied John Burner Biddulph on a trading expedition to Kuruman, the mission outpost on the edge of the Kalahari and home of Dr. Robert Moffat ( father-in-law of David Livingstone ).

Sir Robert Waterton's father-in-law was Sir Richard Tempest, who was with King Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

Robert named his first son Conolly McCausland in reverence to his father-in-law, the name is still used in alternate generations to this day.

Baldwin V, supported by king Robert II of France, his father-in-law, was persuaded to make peace with his father in 1030 when Duke Robert promised the elder Baldwin his considerable military support.

In 1085, with the support of his father-in-law Count Robert and Olaf III of Norway, Canute planned an invasion of England and called his fleet in leding at the Limfjord.

He received three Emmy nominations for his recurring role on the TV series Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert Barone's father-in-law, Hank MacDougall.

Sevier was part of the powerful " Family " of Democratic politicians in Arkansas, who included his first cousins: Representative Henry Wharton Conway, Governor James Sevier Conway, and Governor Elias Nelson Conway ; brother-in-law Senator Robert Ward Johnson, and father-in-law Governor Thomas James Churchill.

This structure was part of the estate of the deceased Robert S. Thomas, George Caleb Bingham's father-in-law.

By 1860, Anderson's father-in-law Dr. Robert Archer had joined the business and Tredegar became a leading iron producer in the country.

Ranulf managed to escape to his earldom, collect his Cheshire and Welsh retainers and appeal to his father-in-law Robert of Gloucester, whose daughter Maud was still besieged in Lincoln, possibly as a deliberate ploy to encourage her father's assistance.

Robert Allen's father-in-law, Randall McDonnell, was the Mayor of Mayo, Quebec for 13 consecutive years.

Thomas Rolfe, the son of Pocahontas and Robert Bolling's father-in-law, is buried there.

Holland began his practice by designing Claremont House for Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, with his future father-in-law in 1771 and their partnership lasted until Brown's death twelve years later.

John Magnier began his association with Coolmore in partnership with his father-in-law and champion racehorse trainer, Vincent O ' Brien, and Vernon ’ s Pools magnate, Robert Sangster.

He held office under his father-in-law Sir Robert Walpole as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1727 to 1729, as a Lord of the Treasury from 1735 to 1736 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1736 to 1743 ( from 1742 to 1743 under the premiership of the The Earl of Wilmington.

He was the father-in-law of writer-director Robert Towne, who married his oldest daughter Julie.

She also studied the pedagogical and critical works of Friedrich Wieck, who was Robert Schumann's music teacher and father-in-law.

Robert of Béthune gained military fame in Italy, when he fought at the side of his father-in-law, Charles I of Sicily ( 1265 – 1268 ) against the last Hohenstaufens, Manfred and Conradin.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and Oxford's father-in-law, c. 1571.

His future father-in-law, William Cecil, also received honorary degrees of Master of Arts on the same progresses.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | William Cecil ( William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Lord Burghley ), Oxford's guardian and father-in-law, and Queen Elizabeth's most trusted advisor.

Due to his role as guardian and father-in-law to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, William Cecil figures largely in the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.

His father-in-law helped Winstanley move to Cobham, Surrey, where he initially worked as a cowherd.

The house certainly once belonged to the father-in-law of Sir Everard Digby ( 1578 – 1606 ), one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and he resided there for some time.

This came through the influence of Mahmud Tarzi, who was both Amanullah Khan's father-in-law and Foreign Minister.

A repeated pattern has been an imperial son-in-law under the influence of his powerful non-imperial father-in-law.

William Fairfax, Lawrence's father-in-law and cousin of Virginia's largest landowner, Thomas, Lord Fairfax, was also a formative influence.

When North Carolina was considering where to establish the county seat for its new Hawkins County, Rogers successfully lobbied, through the influence of his father-in-law, to have the government located near his home ; he even volunteered his tavern, set up around 1784-85, as the first county courthouse in 1787.

Later becoming editor-in-chief of The Economist, which had been founded by his father-in-law, James Wilson, in 1860, Bagehot expanded The Economists reporting on the United States and on politics and is considered to have increased its influence among policymakers over the seventeen years he served as editor.

The influence of his father-in-law, who was afterwards admiral on the side of the parliament, drew Mandeville to the popular side in the questions in dispute with the crown, and at the beginning of the Long Parliament he was one of the recognized leaders of the popular party in the Upper House, his name being joined with those of the five members of the House of Commons impeached by the king in 1642.

In 62 the praetor Antistius Sosianus, who had written abusive poems about Nero, was accused on a maiestas charge by Thrasea's old enemy Cossutianus Capito, who had recently been restored to the senate through the influence of his father-in-law Tigellinus.

In 1260, under the influence of his father-in-law, the Armenian king Hetoum I, Bohemond VI submitted to the Mongols under Hulagu, making Antioch a tributary state of the Mongol Empire.

In the mid-13th century, its leader Bohemond VI, under the influence of his father-in-law Hetoum I of Cilician Armenia, swore vassalage to the Mongol Empire, and contributed troops to the Mongol conquests in the region.

In 1899 he was appointed Governor of Bombay, through the influence of his father-in-law, Lord Mount Stephen.

In the past, Hasselbeck has been open about owing much of her career to the influence of her husband's family, particularly her father-in-law, Don Hasselbeck.

In this private theatre, Heywood would have found an audience for his early works, and a strong artistic influence in his father-in-law.

In 1911, Luise broke her silence and published a memoir blaming her disgrace on her late father-in-law and Saxon politicians, whom she claimed feared that when she became queen, she would use her influence to dismiss them from office.

Following the death of his father-in-law, Ernst Jakob Homberger had a considerable influence on the Schaffhausen watchmaking company's affairs and guided it through one of the most turbulent epochs in Europe's history.

Presumably under the influence of his mentor and father-in-law Witherspoon, Smith named the college for two English champions of liberty, John Hampden ( 1594 – 1643 ) and Algernon Sydney ( 1622 – 1683 ).

Charles was released after a few months ' imprisonment, chiefly through the influence of his half-sister, his aunt, the duchess of Angoulême and his father-in-law.

Some historians believe that the Battle of Rio San Gabriel was under-reported because of the influence of the politically-ambitious Frémont and his father-in-law Senator Thomas Hart Benton, in order to make Frémont look better by downplaying Stockton and Kearny.

After the demise of his illustrious father-in-law, Rama Raya, as a member of the family, began to wield great influence over the affairs of the state.

Remembering the lesson of Empress Bo's and Consort Li's fate, despite her honored position as empress, Empress Wang did not try to assert as much influence on her husband as her mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Dou, had asserted over her father-in-law, Emperor Wen.