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A. O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, is his great-nephew.
A great-nephew of Jardine who would be taipan from 1874 to 1886, William Keswick ( 1834 – 1912 ), is the ancestor of the Keswick branch ( pronounced Ke-zick ) of the family.
If, as seems likely, he died before his fifteenth birthday, he is the shortest-lived monarch in English history ( his great-nephew Edward VI died in his sixteenth year ).
Gus Goose is Donald Duck's second cousin, and the great-nephew of Grandma Duck.
His great-nephew is musician / actor Reeve Carney.
His great-nephew David Norman has also led a successful City career and is a noted benefactor of the arts.
Clarke is a great-nephew of the late Canadian opera singer Portia White, politician Bill White and labour union leader Jack White.
His great-nephew is the noted jazz drummer Rusty Jones.
The composer György Ligeti ( the name Ligeti is a Hungarian equivalent of the German name Auer ) was his great-nephew.
Aitken is a great-nephew of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook ( Lord Beaverbrook ).
Savile was also the nephew of Sir William Coventry, who is said to have influenced his political opinions, and of Lord Shaftesbury, afterwards his most bitter opponent, and great-nephew of the Earl of Strafford.
He is the great-nephew of Sir William Darling, a Conservative MP for Edinburgh South ( 1945 – 1957 ).
His son Neil is the current Chairman of Warwickshire County Cricket Club and his great-nephew Chris Woods was a successful international footballer.
Soames was born in Croydon and is a grandson of British wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, the son of Lord and Lady Soames, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys, Diana Churchill, the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill and a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell.
The current president is Wainscott's great-nephew, Frank A. Rogers, III.
He is the great-nephew of the first Baron Beaverbrook.
Abetz is the great-nephew of SS-Brigadeführer Otto Abetz, Nazi German ambassador to Vichy France from 1940 to 1944.
Richard III ( Peter Cook ) wins the Battle of Bosworth Field, but is accidentally killed by his incompetent great-nephew Edmund who thinks he is stealing his horse, who also unintentionally saves the life of the leader of the enemy, Henry Tudor ( Peter Benson ), only realising who he is when seeing a portrait, by which time Henry is escaping from Edmund's bed, where he was recovering.
Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Television, is her great-nephew.
On his mother's side, Portas is a great-nephew of Artur de Sacadura Cabral, an aviation commander who made the first ever trip from Portugal to Brazil in a seaplane with another commander, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho.
He is survived by his great-nephew Jacob K Roberts ( age 30 ) in Jarrell, Tx who is also an amateur no-limit poker player.

is and Cecil
The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.
Cecil coached the impatient James to humour Elizabeth and " secure the heart of the highest, to whose sex and quality nothing is so improper as either needless expostulations or over much curiosity in her own actions ".
There is no evidence that Cecil ever replied to her request.
Cross-cutting was also used to get new effects of contrast, such as the cross-cut sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus, in which a supposedly dead husband is having a liaison with a Chinese prostitute in an opium den, while simultaneously his unknowing wife is being remarried in church.
Hatfield House is the seat of the Cecil family, the Marquesses of Salisbury.
Robert Cecil is said to have summed up the feeling of the gathering during a speech to the final assembly when he said:
This dependence, though most closely associated with Andrew Cecil Bradley, is clear as early as the time of Mary Cowden Clarke, who offered precise, if fanciful, accounts of the predramatic lives of Shakespeare's female leads.
Moses appears as the central character in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie, also called The Ten Commandments, in which he is portrayed by Charlton Heston.
In creating the Rhodes Scholarships for outstanding students from the United States, Germany and much of the British Empire, Cecil Rhodes wrote in 1901 that ' the object is that an understanding between the three great powers will render war impossible and educational relations make the strongest tie '.
Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).
The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
* Kitty ( 1945 ) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway.
The discovery of copper is owed partly to Frederick Russell Burnham, the famous American scout who worked for Cecil Rhodes.
* William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.
The feat is depicted in various movies, including the 1939 film Union Pacific, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which depicts the fictional Central Pacific investor Asa Barrows obstructing attempts by the Union Pacific from reaching Ogden, Utah.
" The term " human capital " was not used due to its negative undertones until it was first discussed by Arthur Cecil Pigou: " There is such a thing as investment in human capital as well as investment in material capital.
Sitsylt is the original Welsh spelling of the anglicised Cecil.
There is no doubt that Cecil saw which way the wind was blowing, and disliked Northumberland's scheme ; but he had not the courage to resist the duke to his face.
Probably the Queen had more to do with this rumour than Cecil, though he is said to have opposed, in the parliament of 1555 ( in which he represented Lincolnshire ), a bill for the confiscation of the estates of the Protestant refugees.
The most prolonged of Cecil's surviving personal correspondences is with an Irish judge, Nicholas White, lasting from 1566 until 1590 ; it is contained in the State Papers Ireland 63 and Lansdowne MS. 102, but receives hardly a mention in the literature on Cecil.
White's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth.
Proponents of this view claim that the character of Polonius in Hamlet is a parody of Cecil, an interpretation which a minority of mainstream scholars have agreed with.
Cecil, portrayed by David Thewlis, is in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere.

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