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Her father, General Christopher von Benckendorff, served as the military governor of Livonia ; her mother, Anna Juliane née Schilling von Cannstatt, held a high position at the Romanov Court as senior lady-in-waiting and best friend of Empress Maria Fyodorovna.
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Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.
Her father wrote of it, " I see nothing in the way of a good appreciation of Louisa's merits as a woman and a writer.
Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.
Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.
Her father was Mírzá Muḥammad ` Alí Nahrí of Isfahan an eminent Bahá ’ í of the city and prominent aristocrat.
Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his own father ( Charles Bardot ) in the family business.
Her father was " the sort of rebel destined to transform colonial America "; as clerk of the court, he was jailed for disobeying the local magistrate in defense of middle-class shopkeepers and artisans in conflict with wealthy landowners.
Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.
Her Journal reveals her growing sophistication as a critic as well as the influence of her father ’ s friend the artist Sir John Everett Millais who recognised Beatrix ’ s talent of observation.
Her father, unable to bear the grief of his loss, and feeling adrift in a foreign country, returned to his native France for 16 years, with only one visit back to Philadelphia.
" Her father did have a natural aptitude for drawing and the sisters were charmed by his whimsical sketches of animals.
Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.
Her father played the ukulele and guitar and sang professionally in nightclubs with a group called Step ' n ' Fetchit.
Her and General
Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.
* Her Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, David W. Ogden, led a lawsuit against the tobacco companies.
Her first cousin once removed, also named Lucy Grymes, married Henry Lee II ( who was in fact Peyton Randolph's first cousin once removed ), and was the mother of Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee, who was the father of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee.
Her memorial, which commemorates her martyrdom, is 21 January in both the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and in the General Roman Calendar of 1962.
Her majesty, the Queen, continued the arrangement for the widow of General Moore, following his death on 24 April 1838.
In the Isle of Man, Her Majesty's Attorney General is a Crown appointment and Mr Attorney sits in the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man, ' ex officio '.
Her father Juba II of Numidia, was a son of king Juba I of Numidia ( a king of Numidia of Berber descent from North Africa, who was an ally of Roman General Pompey ).
* May 14, 1984January 28, 1990: Her Excellency the Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada
Her aunt Helen Carolin Franklin was married to Norman de Mattos Bentwich, who was the Attorney General in the British Mandate of Palestine.
After a Bill has been passed, the Presiding Officer submits it to Her Majesty for Royal Assent, but only after a four-week period during which the Advocate General for Scotland, the Lord Advocate or the Attorney General may refer the Bill to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ( prior to 1 October 2009, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ) for review of its legality.
* His / Her Excellency — Governor General, Vice-regal consort, ambassadors, and high commissioners in office
* His / Her Honour ( Yang Arif )-Judges, justices, judicial commissioners, Attorney General and Prosecutors General.
the Earl of Clarendon, Englishman, calling himself Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant — General and General Governor of Ireland ," Mitchel stated that the purpose of the journal was to resume the struggle which had been waged by Tone and Emmet, the Holy War to sweep this Island clear of the English name and nation.
" Lord Clarendon was also addressed as " Her Majesty's Executioner-General and General Butcher of Ireland ".
Her first book, North to the Orient ( 1935 ) won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Distinguished General Nonfiction of 1935, voted by the American Booksellers Association.
Her father, Matthew Bucksbaum, was the chairman of the board of General Growth Properties, a real estate development group.
Her father William Washington Gordon II was a Confederate Captain in the American Civil War, and a Brigadier General in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War.
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