Quincy Adams Shaw and his brother-in-law Henry Higginson became major investors in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, and Shaw was the first president of the company and retained that position until 1871, when Agassiz's son Alexander Agassiz took over.

By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the future Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor.

He continued his education at home where one of his tutors was the Reverend John Dann, who was the Downend parish church curate ; like Mr Barnard before him, Mr Dann became Grace's brother-in-law, marrying Blanche Grace in 1869.

On 1 September 1532, Henry granted her suo jure the Marquessate of Pembroke, an appropriate peerage for a future Queen ; as such she became a rich and important woman: the three Dukes and two Marquesses who existed in 1532 were the King's brother-in-law, the King's illegitimate son, and other descendants of royalty ; she ranked above all other peeresses.

Her Protestant brother-in-law and cousin William III became joint monarch with his wife, Anne's sister Mary II.

In what became known as the " Glorious Revolution ", Anne's brother-in-law, William of Orange, invaded England on 5 November 1688 in an action that ultimately deposed King James.

On the death of her mother-in-law Queen Mary in 1953, with her brother-in-law living abroad and her elder daughter, the Queen, aged 27, Elizabeth became the senior member of the British Royal Family and assumed a position as family matriarch.

In 1894, her brother-in-law Alexander III of Russia died and her nephew Nicholas II of Russia became Tsar.

Robert Walpole became a Privy Councillor and rose to the position of Paymaster of the Forces in a Cabinet nominally led by Lord Halifax, but actually dominated by Lord Townshend ( Walpole's brother-in-law ) and James Stanhope.

As a result of this settlement, Licinius became sole Augustus in the East, while his brother-in-law, Constantine, was supreme in the West.

In 1868, Thomas Holt's brother-in-law, Adolphus " Dolph " Moore, became partner in the mill and the operation was called Holt and Moore.

Upon the death of her brother-in-law on 12 May 1873, Sophia became Queen consort of Sweden.

In 1926, Ness ' brother-in-law, Alexander Jamie, an agent of the Bureau of Investigation ( which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935 ), influenced Ness to enter law enforcement.

He allied himself with his brother Richard and with William Pitt ( who became their brother-in-law in 1754 ) in forcing Pelham to give them promotion by rebelling against his authority and obstructing business.

In 1806, in the reorganization of the German lands occasioned by the end of the Holy Roman Empire, Berg became the Grand Duchy of Berg, under the rule of Napoleon's brother-in-law, Joachim Murat.

Inevitably, Wilberforce also became a frequent visitor to Stoke Newington, combining meetings with William Allen and his Quaker circle with visits to his sister Sarah and brother-in-law James.

He was educated under Dr. Charles Burney, his mother's brother-in-law, at Greenwich, and remained there until he was articled in 1804 to his father, whose partner he became in 1811.

The two that survived to adulthood were Lady Mary, who succeeded her father after his deposition during the " Glorious Revolution " of 1688, and Lady Anne, who succeeded her brother-in-law and became the first monarch of Great Britain.

Initially, his son King Ramesuan became ruler of Ayutthaya, but King Ramesuan later abdicated in favor of King Ramathibodi's brother-in-law, King Borommaracha I.

In 1946, the brothers became involved in a feud, and left the manuscripts with a Coptic priest, whose brother-in-law in October that year sold a codex to the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo ( this tract is today numbered Codex III in the collection ).

His brother-in-law Nuri al-Sa ’ id became Chief of the General Staff of the army in February 1921.

Mme de La Rochefoucauld became dame d ' honneur to the empress Josephine, and their eldest daughter married a brother-in-law of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese.

His first warder married him to Isabella of Scotland, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland, whereupon still under-age he became a ward of his new brother-in-law, Alexander II of Scotland until 1228.

He became the London editor of The Gramophone, a magazine started by his brother-in-law Compton Mackenzie.

When Alexander Brandel rose to speak, the hall became silent.

Alexander became heir apparent ( as Tsarevich ) with Nicholas's sudden death in 1865.

Marie de Coucy, who became mother of Alexander III of Scotland

Alexander became separated from his guides and it is assumed that in the dark his horse lost its footing.

When Alexander became emperor, he was young, amiable, well-meaning, and entirely under the dominion of his mother.

Of his brothers, Dioscorus followed his father's profession in Tralles ; Alexander became at Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his time ; Olympius was deeply versed in Roman jurisprudence ; and Metrodorus was a distinguished grammarian in Constantinople.

The American philosopher and educator John Dewey became impressed with the Alexander technique after his headaches, neck pains, blurred vision, and stress symptoms largely improved during the time he used Alexander's advice to change his posture.

In June 328, at the age of 30, three years after Nicæa and upon the repose of Bishop Alexander, he became archbishop of Alexandria.

* Sally Hobart Alexander became blind when she was about 25 and a schoolteacher, during the 1970s, because of an eye disease.

Other early chemists involved in catalysis were Alexander Mitscherlich who referred to contact processes and Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner who spoke of contact action and whose lighter based on hydrogen and a platinum sponge became a huge commercial success in the 1820s.

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

Within the Redstone Association, the differences became intolerable to some of the Baptist leaders, when Alexander Campbell began publishing a journal, The Christian Baptist, promoting reform.

In 330 BC, Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ) invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela and Afghanistan became part of the new Greco-Bactrian kingdom.

His second son Alexander became King, while the remaining royal family and the most prominent royalists followed into exile.

After Russia and its allies defeated Napoleon, Alexander became known as the ' savior of Europe ,' and he presided over the redrawing of the map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna ( 1815 ), which made Alexander the monarch of Congress Poland.

Afghanistan became part of the Seleucid Empire after Alexander died, which formed an alliance with the Indian Maurya Empire.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

Alexander Hanson is sometimes confused with his son, Alexander Contee Hanson, Jr. ( 1786 – 1819 ), who became a newspaper editor and US Senator.

Lucrezia Borgia (; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519 ) was the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei.

When Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI he sought to be allied with powerful princely families and founding dynasties of Italy.

In the 18th century Alexander Baumgarten considered the special case of sensitive knowledge and called it ' gnoseologia inferior ' ( as opposed to a superior rational one ) and with Kant it became aesthetics.