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 eyes became bright as she talked about her father and mother, aunts and uncles, cousins.

Her mother and father, for instance.

Her father was the chieftain of the barony of Murrisk.

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 father ’ s marriage to Julia was his third marriage.

Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.

Her father had no private income and the parsonage would revert to the church on his death.

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 father then sets out with Laura in a carriage for the ruined village of Karnstein.

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 was Emperor Shōmu, and her mother was Empress Kōmyō.

Her father is actor Richard Davalos.

Her father told her she had done well in reaching out to Douglass.

Her father played the ukulele and guitar and sang professionally in nightclubs with a group called Step ' n ' Fetchit.

Her son Rajiv Gandhi succeeds her as Prime Minister.

Her appointment to the Supreme Court over several senior judges was seen as a political decision by Rajiv Gandhi following the controversy over the Muslim Women's ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act.

Her ministry won the vote of confidence of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly in January 1988 but the Central Government under the late Rajiv Gandhi used Article 356 of the Constitution of India to dismiss her government.

Her talent for impersonation was key in her humorous portrayals of such luminaries as Barbra Streisand, Ethel Merman, Arlene Francis, Pauline Kael, Sally Field, Sophia Loren, Beverly Sills, Lynn Redgrave, Linda Lavin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli, Connie Francis, Mother Teresa, Alice B. Toklas, Patti Smith, Brenda Vaccaro and Indira Gandhi.

Her grandfather Feroze Gandhi was a parliamentarian and her great-great-grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a distinguished leader in the Indian Independence Movement

Her book Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action ( 1988 ), concerns nine contemporary nonviolent struggles of the 20th century.

He has appeared in many television and film roles including: Guns at Batasi ( 1964 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Enemy at the Door ( ITV, 1978 – 1980 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), an episode of The Jewel in the Crown ( ITV, 1984 ), the character Frankland in The Hound of the Baskervilles ( ITV, 1988 ) and the character Balliol in Braveheart ( 1995 ).

Her role model off the court is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.

Her grandmother, on the other hand, provided day-to-day supervision and kindly discipline.

Her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Kujavia was the daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-high, who had reunited Poland in 1320.

Her maternal grandmother, Eileen Pearce, emigrated from Newbridge, Kildare, Ireland.

Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.

Her Iowa-born maternal grandmother, Dorothy ( Anderson ) Fries, was a voice coach.

Her children included the Princes in the Tower and Elizabeth of York ; the latter made her the maternal grandmother of Henry VIII.

Her mother's family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime ( Newton-John's maternal grandfather was Jewish, and her maternal grandmother was of paternal Jewish ancestry ).

Her daughter Elizabeth was the " Winter Queen " of Bohemia and the grandmother of King George I of Great Britain.

Her maternal grandmother was Lettice Knollys.

On " The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer ", it is revealed that Hans Moleman slept with Lars Ulrich's grandmother, and is considered by Metallica to be a " real fan ".

There he renamed Zennia Boulevard ( also known as Cohune Walk Boulevard ) in the capital to " Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Boulevard ", in honour of his grandmother.

Her paternal grandfather Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury was the brother of Buckingham's paternal grandmother ( also named Anne Neville ), making Buckingham the Queen's second cousin.

Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch descent ; her mother, Deanna Che, is of Chinese descent, but was born in Indonesia ; her maternal grandmother was born in Jamaica of Chinese descent.

Her grandmother Lingeer Fatim Beye is the matriach and early ancestor of this dynasty.

Her story is called " Ice ," and while she retains some of the main elements of the original fairy tale, such as the basic plot and the proximity of their houses and the window-box gardens, she does not mention the grandmother or much of the back story.

Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell and her uncle is the screenwriter Andrew Birkin, who directed her in The Cement Garden.

Her paternal grandmother, Dolores ( Neubauer ), and her mother, were American.

Her mother, Yelizaveta Fedorovna Schubert, was a scholarly woman of German ancestry and Sofia's grandmother was Romani.

Her family roots also include Scottish and First Nations descent through her 5th great grandmother on her mother's side.

Her maternal grandmother sent Zita and her sister Franziska to a convent on the Isle of Wight to complete her education.

Her paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Russian Jews, and her maternal grandfather was Chinese Filipino.

Her paternal grandmother was an Irish Catholic, and West's paternal grandfather, John Edwin West, was of English-Scots descent and a ship's rigger.

Her maternal grandmother was Ellen Oshey Matsumuro, a Japanese woman whose father was a Japanese artist.