His father, Feroze, was one of the younger members of the Indian National Congress party, and had befriended the young Indira, and also her mother Kamala Nehru, while working on party affairs at Allahabad.

As a young man, he befriended Pargalı Ibrahim, a slave who later became one of his most trusted advisers.

In 1927 he befriended Johanna Ey, who as " Mutter Ey " became well known for her stewardship of young and upcoming artists of the day.

Sun Quan also sought out talented young men to serve as his personal advisors, and it was around this time that he befriended Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, who would later play prominent roles in his administration.

As a young teenager, Banneker met and befriended Peter Heinrichs, a Quaker who established a school near the Banneker family farm.

* Étienne and Françoise-both French ; two young lovers who befriended Richard during their initial encounter in Bangkok, and subsequently join him on the journey in finding the beach after being disclosed about its whereabouts by Daffy's map.

Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be associated with Impressionism, including Whistler and Manet, Fantin's own work remained conservative in style.

While at Cambridge, he befriended the young William Wilberforce, who became a lifelong friend and political ally in Parliament.

He was an avid cricket fan and befriended the young C. P. Snow who was one also.

Piglet also befriended a young heffalump named Junior in two episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

She had befriended the young Princess Anne and later, when the princess became Queen, the Duchess of Marlborough, as her majesty's Mistress of the Robes, exerted great influence over the Queen on both personal and political levels.

Hale and Noy became close friends, to the point where he was referred to as " the young Noy ", and more crucially he also met and befriended John Selden, a " man of almost universal learning, whose theories were to dominate much of later thought ".

He began to explore dark magic and befriended a group of young people who delved into the dark arts for fun or money: Ethan Rayne, Philip Henry, Dierdre Page, Thomas Sutcliff, and Randall.

He befriended a young farm labourer who later recalled Merrick as an interesting and well-educated man.

At the end of the film, the sergeant is in a forest, at night, having just buried a young boy he had befriended after liberating a concentration camp.

In the mid-1960s, Milstead also met and befriended a young man named John Waters ( 1946 –) through their mutual friend Carol Wernig ; Waters and Milstead were the same age and from the same neighborhood, and both embraced many of the countercultural and underground elements of Baltimore society.

As a young man, Messerschmitt befriended German sailplane pioneer Friedrich Harth.

He also travelled in Morocco disguised as a Turkish sheikh, prospected for gold in Spain, befriended Buffalo Bill in Texas, and taught fencing in Mexico City, having travelled there by wagon train from San Antonio de Bexar with his young bride sic " Gabrielle Chidiock de la Balmondiere " a supposed half French half Chilean poet.

The head of the college, the abbé Antoine Faure, who was from the same part of the country as himself, befriended the lad, and continued to do so for many years after he had finished his course, finding him pupils and ultimately obtaining for him the post of tutor to the young duke of Chartres, afterwards the regent Duke of Orléans.

In Los Angeles, Harlean befriended Rosalie Roy, a young aspiring actress.

In 1953, he befriended the young American philosopher Allan Bloom, who was teaching at the Sorbonne.

He is rescued from the desert by a band of nomads, and is befriended by Elena, a young nomad girl.

During his time in Odessa, Fry met and befriended a young George H. W. Bush, who would become the 41st President of the United States.

Westheimer befriended the boy, who had no father, and began to urge his close friends to get involved as " big brothers " with other young boys from fatherless homes.

During this time, Douglas became friends with a group of young New Dealers including Tommy " The Cork " Corcoran and Abe Fortas ; this social / political group befriended a freshman Congressman from the 10th District of Texas: Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Carr had befriended freshman Allen Ginsberg and introduced him to Kammerer and Burroughs.

He befriended fellow freshman state representative Lena Guerrero of Austin, a staunch liberal Democrat who endorsed Perry's reelection bid in 2006 on personal, rather than philosophical, grounds.

Other people that he befriended at Harvard, according to his diary, include Robert Gould Shaw, whom Crowninshield first met when Shaw was a freshman who was hoping to become a member of the Pierian Sodality.

However, when he is first introduced, it is also mentioned that as freshman senator he served on the Judiciary Committee and befriended then-committee staffer Eric Baker, who would later become the Governor of Pennsylvania and a Democratic presidential / vice presidential contender.

In Holworthy Hall at Harvard, Reiss met fellow freshman Al Jean ; they befriended one another and collaborated their writing efforts for the humor publication Harvard Lampoon.

Later, Enrico befriended another scientifically inclined student named Enrico Persico, and the two worked together on scientific projects such as building gyroscopes and measuring the Earth's magnetic field.

Its crew find themselves befriended by a devil-like alien named Lucien, whom they must defend against accusations that he has brought evil to the world of Megas-tu.

Robby portrayed a robot named Chuck, whom Mork befriended while working as a security guard in the science museum where Chuck was on display.

He befriended and was financially aided by a democratic revolutionary named Miyazaki Toten.

Carl began learning more about playing his guitar from a fellow field worker named John Westbrook who befriended him.

*: This story featured a corporeal space creature with two large eyes, who befriended a reporter named Jôji Akita, but the Self Defense Forces, who perceived the alien as a threat, went after them.

Around 1959, Holt and fellow Ordette member Sundray Tucker met and befriended a rival girl group from Trenton, New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia, named the Del-Capris, which featured friends Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash.

He was befriended by the mayor and state representative, a frontier scout, rancher, and hunter named Charles " Buffalo " Jones.

Kirk and McCoy arrive at the Rura Penthe mines and are befriended by a shapeshifter named Martia, who offers them an escape route ; in reality, it is a ruse to make their arranged deaths appear accidental.

She befriended another wandering refugee, a Jewish Hungarian scholar from Budapest named Lob who gave her an education and a name: Modesty ( Blaise she added herself later, after Merlin's tutor from the Arthurian legends ).

At St. Paul's Congregational Church in Chicago, he befriended Elias Disney, who named his fourth son, Walter Elias Disney, after the Rev.

On his way, he is befriended and looked after by a stranger named Tommy Lillard ( Ford ), a bank robber with a soft heart who is moved by Avram's helplessness and frank personality, despite the trouble it occasionally gives him.

Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian outback and is eventually befriended by a kangaroo and several other marsupials.

Mack befriended a high schooler named Jason Lochner ( Thomas Wilson Brown ), who was being beaten by his father.

According to a notation by Irving, the character of Ichabod Crane was based on a schoolteacher named Jesse Merwin, whom Irving befriended in Kinderhook, New York, in 1809.

He befriended the local Meskwaki Chief Peosta-for whom the nearby town of Peosta, Iowa is named.

A Paku named Stink and a baby dinosaur named Tasha were befriended by the Porters.

Scott also befriended Brown's assistant, a dwarf named Oberon.

During his time at the comic book publisher, Danny is befriended by a young girl named Sandy who is in charge of babysitting him.

Lucky then befriended a boy named Sly Eckert, who hid him in the city's catacombs.

It was in Japan that Leach began potting under the direction of Shigekichi Urano ( Kenzan VI ) and befriended a young potter named Shoji Hamada.

Upon his return to Barcelona, he was named director of the Queen's Regimental Band in 1851 and travelled with them to Cuba where he met and befriended Antonio López de Santa Anna, the former Mexican president.