Originally owned by the Scrope family since the late 16th century the estate belonged to Colonel Adrian Scrope the regicide.

Colonel Sir Percival Scrope Marling, 3rd Baronet VC, CB, DL ( 6 March 1861 – 29 May 1936 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Colonel Adrian Scrope ( c. 1601 – 17 October 1660 ) was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I.

In June 1648, at the outbreak of the Second English Civil War, Scrope was ordered to join Colonel Whalley in the pursuit of the Earl of Norwich and the Kentish royalists, and he took part in the siege of Colchester.

Incidentally the daughter of Colonel Adrian Scrope, one of the regicides is buried in the same church.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

From there, his body was taken to the home of Colonel William Inge, which had been his headquarters in Corinth.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

As it was believed that in a colony of free settlers there would be little crime, no provision was made for a gaol in Colonel Light's 1837 plan.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

After a promotion in the militia in 1841, Johnson was often locally referred to as " Colonel ".

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

Marlborough's anxiety was finally allayed when, just past noon, Colonel Cadogan reported that Eugene's Prussian and Danish infantry were in place – the order for the general advance was given.

The accomplished French officer, Colonel de la Colonie, standing on the plain nearby remembered – " this village was the opening of the engagement, and the fighting there was almost as murderous as the rest of the battle put together.

After a brief pause, Marlborough ’ s equerry, Colonel Bringfield ( or Bingfield ), led up another of the Duke ’ s spare horses ; but while assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheared off his head.

Colonel Charles de Gaulle was a known advocate of concentration of armor and airplanes.

# Mary, who married Penruddocke Wyndham, a grandson of Colonel Wadham Wyndham, in 1852 and had two daughters.

It is named after General Benjamin Cleveland, a War of 1812 figure and grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a Revolutionary War figure.

He was the grandson of Colonel Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the English Civil War by his defence of Newcastle upon Tyne against the Scots.

Beckford was born in Jamaica the grandson of Colonel Peter Beckford.

His grandson Colonel Paul W. Tibbets IV, USAF, ( a 1989 graduate of the US Air Force Academy ) was also commander of the 393rd Bomb Squadron at Whiteman AFB, Missouri, from 2005 – 2007 and flew the B-2 Spirit.

Born in Purbrook, Canada West, ( near what is now Orillia, Ontario ) he was the son of Royal Naval Captain Elmes Yelverton Steele, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and his second wife, Anne Macdonald, the youngest daughter of Neil Maclain MacDonald of Ardnamurchan, a native of Islay, grandson of Captain Godfrey MacNeil of Barra and nephew of Colonel Donald MacNeil.

In the M * A * S * H TV episode " Who Knew ?," Colonel Potter ( played by Harry Morgan ) displays an inflatable shmoo toy in his office that he purchased for his grandson.

( Colonel Gibbes ' grandson, Frederick Jamison Gibbes, entered the NSW Parliament in the 1880s ; and although he often disagreed with Parkes on matters of economic policy, he did by and large support Parkes ' push for the federation of the rival Australian colonies into an homogenous nation.

John Seward Johnson II ( born 1930 ) also known as J. Seward Johnson, Jr. and Seward Johnson is an American artist known for his trompe l ' oeil painted bronze statues, and a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I ( co-founder of Johnson & Johnson ), and of Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, of Bermuda.

Colonel John Browne's grandson John Browne represented Castlebar in the Irish House of Commons.

John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont ( the grandfather of John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo ), was the grandson of Colonel John Browne, younger son of Sir John Browne, 1st Baronet.

( In fact, ultimately she did ; their grandson, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr., was a Colonel in the U. S. Army and later a founder, with his extended family, of the Kentucky Derby.

Born in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the grandson of Colonel Timothy Pickering, he grew up in Wenham, Massachusetts and received a medical degree from Harvard University in 1823.

His grandson, John, Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, rode from Craigdarroch to Killiecrankie in 1689, where he was killed in battle.

He was succeeded in the barony of Grey de Ruthyn by his grandson, Henry, the nineteenth Baron, the son of his daughter Lady Barbara Yelverton by Colonel Edward Thoroton Gould.

( General Meigs was a great grandson of Continental Army Colonel Return J. Meigs, Sr .).

It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago Tribune, and is open to the public.

After his death, the estate passed to his grandson, Colonel McCormick.

The track is named for John and Henry Churchill, who leased 80 acres ( 320, 000 m² ) of land to their nephew, Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. ( grandson of explorer William Clark ).

So he had adopted his grandson William Pepperrell Sparhawk, son of Colonel Nathaniel Sparhawk, as his heir on the condition that Sparhawk agree to go by the name of Pepperrell, which he did by act of legislature.

Henry Gassaway Davis was born near Woodstock, Howard County, Maryland to Caleb Dorsey Davis and Louisa Warfield Brown, He was the great-great-great grandson of Maryland pioneer Thomas Davis, and the great-great-great-great grandson of Maryland politician and justice Colonel Nicholas Gassaway, both of whom were of Welsh ancestry and emigrated to Maryland in the mid 17th century.

Colonel Robert Dormer-Cottrell, the grandson of the house's builder, inherited Rousham in 1719 and began the huge transformation of the gardens to its current appearance.

Born in 1862, he was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Francis William Newdigate and his first wife Charlotte Elizabeth Agnes Sophia Woodford, and grandson of Francis Parker Newdigate.

Boyle was the second of four sons in a family of nine, born to Colonel Gerald Edmund Boyle, a grandson of the 8th Earl of Cork, and to Lady Elizabeth Theresa Pepys, daughter of the 1st Earl of Cottenham.