* The last direct descendant of Pieter Stuyvesant to bear his surname was Augustus van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr., who died a bachelor in 1953 at the age of 83 in his mansion at 2 East 79th Street.

He died a bachelor at Graystone on August 4, 1886 at 8 a. m.

It appears that he failed to win his " Idea ," and lived and died a bachelor.

He died, a bachelor, in his rooms at 8 St James's Street ( a small museum of autograph portraits and reviewing trophies ).

She refused him, and he died a bachelor.

Before he died, he wrote that he was a sad and lonely man and had never wanted to remain a bachelor.

When his father died that same year, he decided to follow in his footsteps, so he changed his major to political science and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1962.

Baxter, who died a bachelor, left $ 7 million to maintain the park.

He lived in Leicestershire for many years as a bachelor, before eventually marrying Elizabeth Fortescue ( died aft.

He remained a bachelor all his life and died of a massive heart attack in 1985.

Indeed, visitations survive showing that Richard died a bachelor and her mother's probate documents showing that Catherine was a spinster, aged 38, on 24 December 1656.

However, documents survive that show that Richard died ' ob cael ', i. e. a bachelor, and that, in 1656, Catherine was known as a spinster aged 38.

He died a bachelor on 20 June 1947.

After Caccini's first husband died in December 1626, she quickly arranged to marry again in October 1627, this time to a bachelor, melophile nobleman in Lucca, Tommaso Raffaelli.

Shirley's aviator father died in an airplane crash before the film opens, and she now spends most of her time at the Glendale, California airport with her godfather, bachelor pilot James ' Loop ' Merritt ( James Dunn ), and his dog Rags.

It is known that Catherine was legally single when she was executor to her mother's will in December 1656, and Richard appears in visitations as ob cael ( died a bachelor ).

A lifelong bachelor, Ladew died in 1976 at the age of 89.

He retired from business in 1833 and died a bachelor in 1863.

A lifelong bachelor, he died in Melbourne, Victoria.

The engagement was called off as his business declined and Oldknow died a bachelor.

In 1811, social convention and duty to his king, led Sir Thomas Maitland to leave the country for Malta, where he lived and died as a bachelor.

After Jardine died a bachelor in 1843, his nephews David and Andrew Jardine assisted James Matheson in running the Hong as Tai-Pan.

John Bennett died in July 1829, a bachelor, and his nephew inherited his estate, building Meadowbank House around 1835.

Bhaskarvarman, also called Kumar, or Shri Kumar, was a bachelor king and died without an heir.

My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.

Suddenly there was a commotion upstairs, a despairing boyish shriek, and the strains of the waltz faltered and died as the musicians and guests gaped at an apparition descending the marble staircase.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

The Congo, in whose cause he died, was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

Ritter died in 1810 and Oersted not only lived to see the event occur but was the author of it.

A politician was approached by a man seeking the office of a minor public official who had just died.

The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.

T. V. Barker, who developed the classification-angle system, was about to begin the systematic compilation of the index when he died in 1931.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

McClellan, who had once lost his medical license temporarily on a charge of drug addiction, was with her when she died.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

Aunt Mary died when I was doing my military service.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.