His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of slave plantations in Jamaica.

Co-hosted by country artists Buck Owens and Roy Clark for most of the series ' run, the show was equally well known for its voluptuous, scantily-clad women in stereotypical farmer's daughter outfits and country-style minidresses, male stars Jim and Jon Hager and its cornpone humor.

In the morning, when the truth became known, Laban justified his action, saying that in his country it was unheard of to give a younger daughter before the older.

John took a close interest in Wales and knew the country well, visiting every year between 1204 and 1211 and marrying his illegitimate daughter, Joan, to the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

:: I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God, – my daughter to my country.

** Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica ( in modern Libya ), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt ( b. c. 267 BC )

** Following the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, he is succeeded by his 6 year old daughter Christina while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.

The movement may be seen as a revolution, since it led to the ousting of Mary of Guise, who governed the country in the name of her young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots.

Banks was born in London to William Banks, a wealthy Lincolnshire country squire and member of the House of Commons, and his wife Sarah, daughter of William Bate.

Judd grew up in a family of successful performing artists as the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd and the half-sister of Wynonna Judd.

She is the daughter of Naomi Judd, a country music singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Charles Ciminella, a marketing analyst for the horseracing industry.

His grandfather, James II of England and VII of Scotland, had ruled the country from 1685 to 1689, at which time he was deposed when Parliament invited the Dutch Protestant, William of Orange and his wife the Princess Mary ( King James ' eldest daughter ) to replace him, in the Revolution of 1688.

* Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica ( in modern Libya ), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt ( b. c. 267 BC )

His paternal grandmother, Mary, a daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary, declared her claim to Hungary following the death of her brother, King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, but the majority of the country accepted the rule of her distant cousin, King Andrew III.

On July 14, 1776, Boone's daughter Jemima and two other teenage girls were captured outside Boonesborough by an Indian war party, who carried the girls north towards the Shawnee towns in the Ohio country.

A year after the birth of their first daughter, Danuté, in June 1942, the young Gimbutas family fled the country in the wake of the Soviet re-occupation, first to Vienna and then to Innsbruck and Bavaria.

His daughter Antigone acted as his guide as he wandered blindly through the country, finally perishing at Colonus after being placed under the protection of Athens by King Theseus.

Adrastus, therefore, gave his daughter Deipyle to Tydeus, and Argeia to Polynices, and at the same time promised to lead each of these princes back to his own country.

New Zealanders adopted a similar personification of their country in Zealandia, Britannia's daughter, who appeared on postage stamps at the turn of the 20th century and still features in the New Zealand Coat of Arms.

The most celebrated saint of Sweden was the daughter of the knight, Birger Persson of the family of Finsta, governor and lawspeaker of Uppland, and one of the richest landowners of the country, and his wife, a member of the so-called Lawspeaker branch of the Folkunga family.

Benjamin ( Brel ) is a country doctor in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter, Manette, but she refuses his advances until he produces a marriage contract.

His daughter, Chitra ( Indian ambassador to Switzerland & The Holy See ), on behalf of her mother ( Usha ), sister ( Amrita ), and the rest of his family, expressed her appreciation for the outpouring of grief from all over the country and abroad ; she added that K. R. Narayanan would be remembered for his great love for the nation and for his immense moral strength and courage.

They had two children ; the second, a daughter, suffered from spina bifida and died in 1942 aged three, by which time O ' Brian had left the family in their remote country cottage and returned to London, where he worked throughout the war.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition: Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a brief and unsuccessful career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles Sr., a butcher's son, worked as a popular singer.

Because he loved Verdi ’ s music, Barezzi invited Verdi to be his daughter Margherita's music teacher, and the two soon fell deeply in love.

The character is the daughter of Loki and is represented as a beautiful but troubled girl who works in a butcher shop, loves meat and writes dark and depressing music.

His daughter, Marie Ledin ( wife of Swedish star and ABBA concert backing vocalist Tomas Ledin ) was also involved in the music industry.

His mother was Emma Morris née Shelton, daughter of Joseph Shelton, a teacher of music in Worcester.

The wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, to Prince Fredrick William of Prussia in 1858 also introduced choral music to the processional when standard practice had been to have music of any kind only during a party after the wedding ceremony.

Andie MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, the daughter of Pauline " Paula " Johnston ( née Oswald ), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive .< ref >

Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts.

) His daughter Imogen later recalled of " I Vow to Thee " that " At the time when he was asked to set these words to music, Holst was so over-worked and over-weary that he felt relieved to discover they ' fitted ' the tune from Jupiter ".

: Charles Grean of Dot Records had arranged with the studio to do an album of space music based on music from Star Trek, and he has a teenage daughter who's a fan of the show and a fan of Mr. Spock.

Also in music, Caine provided vocal samples for the band Madness for their 1984 hit " Michael Caine " as his daughter was a fan.

The son of a farmer, Jim wanted to be a singer ; Marian, the daughter of a coal miner, wanted to be a music teacher.

His mother whom he recalls singing folk songs during his childhood was in fact the daughter of a well-to-do family of sea captains and his uncle was a composer and performer of popular music.

Irmelin, his eldest daughter, had studied music theory with her father.

A concerted drive, including a poll ( scrutinised by the Electoral Reform Society ) to select the track, saw " Bunsen Burner " — with music sampled from the Trammps song " Disco Inferno " and lyrics devised to help his daughter with her chemistry homework — reach number nine in the UK Singles Chart on 6 October, and earned Otway an appearance on Top Of The Pops, BBC Television's flagship popular music programme.

* Holly Williams, country music singer ( and daughter of Hank Williams, Jr .)