Guest's paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and Guest's paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.

His grandfather and father, both named Edward Francis Vereka Ventris, reached the ranks of Major General and Lieutenant Colonel, respectively.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

That same year his father, then Colonel of the 55th Foot ( later renumbered the 44th ), purchased a commission for Charles as an Ensign in the same regiment.

* Elias Dayton ( 1737 – 1807 ), Colonel and father of Jonathan and builder of Fort Dayton

Along with her equally larcenous father, " Colonel " Harrington ( Charles Coburn ) and his partner Gerald ( Melville Cooper ), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike ( Henry Fonda ), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune (" The Ale That Won for Yale ").

The New York militia included Sybil's father Colonel Henry Ludington.

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

The latter role was loosely based on a Marine aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, the father of the book's author Pat Conroy.

his father, Thomas Brooke, was an English Judge Court of Appeal at Bareilly, British India ; his mother, Anna Maria, born in Hertfordshire, was the daughter of Scottish peer Colonel William Stuart, 9th Lord Blantyre, and his mistress Harriott Teasdale.

His father, Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold ( 1854-1943 ) ( Royal Engineers ), participated in the rescue expedition 1884-1885 to rescue General Gordon in Khartoum.

He attended Eton College and Sandhurst, and entered the Life Guards in 1952, the regiment of which his father had previously been Colonel.

Edward's mother, Mary Anne, nee Carless ( or Carlos ), had noble ancestry, descending through her father, William, then residing near Birmingham, from the same Colonel William Carless who had assisted the future Charles II as he hid from his enemies in the branches of the Royal Oak after the Battle of Worcester, 1651, the last of the English Civil War.

Lingen was born in Birmingham, where his father was in business, Lingen descended from the ancient Herefordshire family of Lingen, Lords of Lingen, Sutton and Stoke Edith, and the native Princes of Southern Powys, with Royalist traditions who included the noted cavalier Colonel, Sir Henry Lingen.

At the age of nine, he apprenticed with his father, but Astley's dream was to work with horses, so he joined Colonel Eliott's Fifteenth Light Dragoons when he was 17, later becoming a Sergeant Major.

Ibrahim Pasha, with father Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Muhammad Ali Pasha and Colonel Sève ( Suleiman Pasha, right ).

The company was founded by Josiah's father, Colonel Eli Lilly.

The story involves Curt, whose father, a Colonel in the US Army, is overseeing experiments being performed with Trioxin.

) Manson, famed hunting guide and father of Tom ( William Martley ) and ' Colonel "( Donald Arthur ) Manson, also well-known hunting guides, and grand-son of Donald Manson, well known in the early history of the Hudson's Bay Company in BC.

* Colonel George Napier ( 1751 – 1804 ), his father ;

More recently, he has appeared in the 2001 adaption of The Lost World as Prof. Leo Summerlee, Agatha Christie's Poirot-Death on the Nile ( 2004 ) as Colonel Race and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ) playing Mr. Salt, Veruca Salt's father.

Directed by Mark Robson, who received an Academy Award for Directing nomination, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Colonel Lin Nan, a Chinese officer with a Dutch father.

Floyd Long was the father of future U. S. Representative Gillis William Long and U. S. Army Colonel Floyd H. Long, Jr. Long's brief first tenure corresponded with the " Louisiana Hayride " scandals that engulfed the president of Louisiana State University, James Monroe Smith.

His father, Colonel James Tallmadge ( 1744 to 1821 ), led a company of volunteers at the capture of General John Burgoyne.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

Stickney is a salesman for Plee-Zing, Inc., 2544 Green Bay Rd., Evanston, a food brokerage and grocery chain firm, of which his father, William L. Jr., is president.

There were several fairly good minor portraits in the play, including William Hansen's impersonation of a stubborn, rather pathetic father, and Katherine Squire's vigorous characterization of a farm mother who brooked no hifalutin' nonsense from her daughter, or anyone else.

allied to them was Gerry, devoting much time to swaying her father, and Joan dismissed all thought of the project and William was unwilling to interfere further.

In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.

Andrew's father, William Carnegie, started off working in a cotton mill but then would earn money weaving and peddling linens.

Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.

Young William Wallace witnesses the treachery of Longshanks, survives the death of his father and brother, and is taken abroad by his uncle where he is educated.

Following William and Mary's accession to the throne, England involved itself in the War of the Grand Alliance primarily to prevent a French invasion restoring Mary's father, James II.

William Aspdin's innovation was counterintuitive for manufacturers of " artificial cements ", because they required more lime in the mix ( a problem for his father ), a much higher kiln temperature ( and therefore more fuel ), and the resulting clinker was very hard and rapidly wore down the millstones, which were the only available grinding technology of the time.

A Lucy Swift gave birth in 1771 to a baby, also named Lucy, who was christened a daughter of her mother and William Swift, but there is reason to believe the father was really Darwin.

In 2007 Graham Waterhouse composed Epitaphium for string trio as a tribute to the memory of his father William Waterhouse.

After the death of his father in 1562, he became a ward of Queen Elizabeth and received an excellent education in the household of her Principal Secretary, Sir William Cecil.

His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.

His father, William Carey Wright ( 1825 – 1904 ), was a locally admired orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer, and itinerant minister.

William left Wisconsin after the divorce and Wright claimed he never saw his father again.

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

He was the father of Frederick William, the " Great Elector ".