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When John Lawson Johnston died, George Lawson Johnston inherited the Bovril business.
In 1619 George William inherited the Margravate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia.
George was born in Hanover, in what is now Germany, and inherited the titles and lands of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from his father and uncles.
In a May 11, 2009 interview with Larry King, Ventura twice stated that George W. Bush was the worst president of his lifetime, adding " President Obama inherited something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Lady Margaret was born at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of the George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and the former Isabella Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, his wife, who inherited the Earldom of Warwick.
He in turn had inherited it from his grandfather George W. Binkley who had homesteaded the land and entered it with the government in 1837.
George Augustus Waggaman settled in the area with his wife, Camille Arnoult, who inherited a large tract of land there.
Upon the death of William in 1824, his son George Patterson inherited the estate.
The property was purchased by William B. Carpenter in 1837, and his daughter and son-in-law Mary E. and George Mayfield inherited the house in 1869.
His elder son Charles ( 1626 – 1627 ) died as an infant and the title was inherited by his younger son George.
Edward died young, Robert became a Knight Bachelor and married Theophile, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, Arthur married Elizabeth, heir of Sir George Walgrave, John married Meriel, daughter of Anthony Wheately, through which Holkham Hall came into the Coke family, Henry married Margaret, daughter of Richard Lovelace, and inherited the manor at Holkham from his brother John ( who had seven daughters but no son ), Clement married Sarah, heiress of Alesxander Redich, and Thomas died as an infant.
When George Washington inherited the property he retained the name.
When John Washington died in 1677, his son Lawrence, George Washington's grandfather, inherited his father's stake in the property.
Upon Frederick's death, the title was inherited by his son Prince George.
When that family died out in 1508, the manor and castle passed to George Manners, who inherited the castle and barony through his mother.
Carteret had inherited a one-eighth share in the Province of Carolina through his great-grandfather Sir George Carteret.
When the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg was divided in 1635, George inherited the principalities of Calenberg and Göttingen, and in 1636 he moved his residence to Hanover.
Joe Smith, under whose leadership resulted in the biggest market share and gross revenues Elektra Asylum was to have, inherited the A & R services of Chuck Plotkin, famed later for producing many of Bruce Springsteen's greatest records, followed up by George Daly, who is credited as bringing in seminal New Wave band The Cars, setting Elektra, again, on another artist direction.
The fifth and final creation was for Prince Henry, son of George V. Upon Prince Henry's death, the dukedom was inherited by his son Prince Richard, who still holds the title.
When Tony George ( Hulman's grandson ) inherited the track, he brought more racing to the Speedway, with NASCAR in 1994 ( the Brickyard 400, known from 2005 to 2009 as the Allstate 400 at The Brickyard ), and an International Race of Champions ( IROC ) event in 1998.
He married twice, firstly the widow of his counting-house employer, whose property he inherited on her death, and secondly, in 1731, Mary, the 22 year old daughter of cabinet-maker George Nix with whom he had two surviving children.
When he died in 1940, his eldest son, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, inherited the Dukedom, but the Earldom of Selkirk and its subsidiary title passed under the special remainder ( provision 3 above ) to his second son, Lord George Douglas-Hamilton, who succeeded as 10th Earl.
A member of the British Royal Family being reliably diagnosed with porphyria subsequently added credence to the theory – first proposed by Professor Macalpine in the late 1960s – that porphyria was the source of the ill-health of both Mary, Queen of Scots ( an ancestor of both of William's parents ) and of George III and that the disorder had been inherited by some members of the Royal Families of Great Britain, Prussia and several minor German dukedoms and principalities.
The manor remained in the hands of the Assheton family until 1514 when the line ended ; Sir George Booth later acquired the manor and it descended with the Booth family until 1758 when the Earls of Stamford inherited it through marriage.

George and Ferry
* 2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
George Washington spent much of his childhood in the lower part of the county on his family's home, Ferry Farm, along the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg.
The new Route 6 would share the alignment of Route 5 from Paterson to west of Hackensack, where it would turn southeast onto a new alignment to Little Ferry, then run with Route 5 again to east of Ridgefield and split onto its own alignment to the George Washington Bridge.
Farragut was born in 1801 to Elizabeth Shine ( b. 1765 – d. 1808 ), of North Carolina Scots-Irish descent, and her husband George Farragut, a native of Minorca, Spain, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River.
Verplanck is also known for its Revolutionary War history, specifically the location of the strategic Kings Ferry between Stony Point and Verplanck's Point, which George Washington's army used to cross the Hudson on its march to Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781.
The main problem with upgrading the Wakefield branch was the dimensions of George Leather's cast iron aqueduct over the River Calder at Stanley Ferry.
George Taylor was buried in St. John's Lutheran Church cemetery across from his residence at Fourth and Ferry Streets in Easton.
On Staten Island, the ferry arrives and departs from St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace, near Richmond County Borough Hall and Richmond County Supreme Court.
There is commuter parking at the St George Ferry terminal, which is also the terminus of the Staten Island Railway.
* On October 15, 2003, at 15: 21, the Andrew J. Barberi ( in another accident ) collided with a pier ( see 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash ) on the eastern end of the St. George ferry terminal, killing eleven people, seriously injuring many others, and tearing a huge slash through the lowest of the three passenger decks.
The terminal station at St. George provides a direct connection to the Staten Island Ferry.
Three years later, the North Vancouver Ferry and Power Company was created, took over, and built a new craft called St. George.
The completion of the George Massey Tunnel in 1959 linking Ladner to Richmond and Vancouver along with the opening, in 1960, of the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal and the Highway 99 being rerouted from the King George Highway in Surrey in 1962 to a new route through Delta, ended Delta's isolation and resulted in a massive 400 % population growth over the next 20 years.
On October 15, 2003, at 3: 21 p. m., the Staten Island Ferry vessel Andrew J. Barberi crashed full-speed into a concrete pier at the St. George ferry terminal.
* June 25, 1946 – Fire destroys the St. George terminal of the Staten Island Ferry, killing 3 and injuring 280.
* October 15, 2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing ten people and injuring 43 others.
The harbor is traversed by the Staten Island Ferry, which runs between Whitehall Street at the southernmost tip of Manhattan near Battery Park ( South Ferry ) and St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace in Staten Island near Richmond County Borough Hall and Richmond County Supreme Court.
The area contains many old and historic building and sites, including Castle Garden, originally the fort Castle Clinton, Bowling Green, the old United States Customs House, now the National Museum of the American Indian, Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated as the first U. S. President, Fraunces Tavern, New York City Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, renovated original mercantile buildings of the South Street Seaport ( and a modern tourist building ), the Brooklyn Bridge, South Ferry, embarkation point for the Staten Island Ferry and ferries to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, and Trinity Church.

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