His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

Parson Weems's George Washington became the symbol of honesty and the father image of the uniting States.

Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

George Washington ( February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 ), the country's first president, is often said to be the father of his country.

In 1984, Titan the main shipping company of the Papanicolaou ’ s was in trouble, so Livanos's father George bought out the Papanicolaou's shares in ALL, while Gauntlett again became a shareholder with a 25 % holding in AML.

One of the silversmiths in Arthur Stone's shop was George Porter Blanchard, father of silversmith Porter Blanchard.

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.

Watterson was born in Washington, D. C., where his father, James G. Watterson ( born 1932 ), worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School before becoming a patent attorney in 1960.

Mather claims he did not attend the trials in Salem ( though his father attended the trial of George Burroughs ).

In earlier sections of the film, Reeve's Kent interacts with both his earthly parents and the spirit of his Kryptonian father through a special crystal, in a way George Reeves never did.

As a child she and her brother George studied singing, piano, guitar and violin with their father.

* 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI.

* 1811 – Henry George Liddell, father of Alice Liddell ( d. 1898 )

Dyson's father was the English composer Sir George Dyson ;

Bush is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.

Until the election of his son George W. Bush to the presidency in 2000, Bush was commonly referred to simply as " George Bush "; since that time, the forms " George H. W. Bush ", " Bush 41 ", " Bush the Elder ", and " George Bush, Sr ." have come into common use as a way to distinguish the father from the son.

George's father died when George was 11 years old, after which George's half-brother Lawrence became a surrogate father and role model.

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.

His eldest son, George, succeeded as fifth Earl, and was the father of John, the seventh Earl, who was created Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916.

His father was Albert the Brave of Saxony, founder of the Albertine line of the Wettin family, his mother was Sidonie, daughter of George Podiebrad, King of Bohemia.

His father Hadrian, who belonged to the Roman aristocracy, entrusted his education to his relative, Bishop Zachary, librarian of the Holy See.

( See Jesus as Mother by Carolyn Walker Bynum ) Julian's revelation revealed that God is our mother as much as He is our father.

See List of persons considered father or mother of a field.

Traditional and current Orthodox thought have mainly held that the Messiah will be the anointed one ( messiah ), descended from his father through the Davidic line of King David via Solomon ( See Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan ), who will gather the Jews back into the Land of Israel, usher in an era of peace, build the Third Temple, have a male heir and re-institute the Sanhedrin, among other things.

The Engineer refuses to help her until he learns that Tam's father is American (" Let Me See His Western Nose ") – thinking this is his passport to the United States.

He who does not have the Church for a mother cannot have God for a father, and whoever abandons the See of Peter on which the Church is established trusts falsely that he is in the Church ( ibid, On the Unity of the Catholic Church ).

: See entry for Eber, ( great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg and Joktan, sometimes also known as " Heber " in English.

His father, Cesare d ' Azeglio, an officer in the Piedmontese army, held a high position at court ; on the return of Pope Pius VII to Rome after the fall of Napoleon, Cesare d ' Azeglio was sent as special envoy to the Holy See, and took his son, then sixteen years of age, with him as an extra attaché.

See: Plumb, Philip W., Dr William Gilbert: like father, like son?

Murrow and Friendly had produced a notable See It Now episode on the topic the previous fall, when the show probed the case of Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Milo Radulovich, who had lost his security clearance because of the supposed leftist leanings of his sister and father — evidence the Air Force kept sealed.

Also in 1969, Heather was formally adopted by Paul McCartney through legal process ( and with prior consent from See, her biological father ) and took the McCartney name.

She has stated that, although See had a lifelong influence on her, she considers Paul McCartney to be her father.

: For his father, See Eddie Albert.

Jesse James believed the pregnancy would protect him from extradition to the United States, as Brazilian law stated that " If you're the father of a native Brazilian, you cannot be extradited " ( See the case of Ronald Biggs ); however, Jesse James was wrong about the Brazilian laws, which had been changed since the international controversy with Biggs.

* See Bell Telephone Company for Thomas Sanders ( U. S. businessman ), Alexander Graham Bell's first sponsor and partner in Cambridge / Boston, and the father of one of Bell's students

Ernst Lindemann, father of Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann, the only commander of the German battleship Bismarck.

( See April 1993 for Saddam's attempted assassination of Bush's father.

At the wedding, his long-time friend Tony Bennett sang " I See Your Face Before Me ", a 1937 composition by Schwartz's father and Howard Dietz.

There was a battle between Charles and his father at Fort St. Louis ( See National Historic Site-Fort St. Louis ), the latter supporting the Scottish who had taken Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

Arius and his followers appealed to Bible verses such as Jesus saying that the father is " greater than I " ( John ), and " The Lord created me at the beginning of his work " ( Proverbs ).

* Father's Day or Bā bā Day ( 爸爸節 ), Bā Bā is Mandarin for " father " and " 8-8 ", or August 8.

A treaty was made whereby Ben-hadad restored the cities which his father had taken from Ahab's father ( that is, Omri, but see 15: 20, 2 Kings 13: 25 ), and trading facilities between Damascus and Samaria were granted.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

Some early sources call him their father or grandfather, but considering the commonly accepted dates of the fall of Troy ( 1184 BC ) and the founding of Rome ( 753 BC ), this seems unlikely.

Another account makes him the son of Pleisthenes ( the son or father of Atreus ), who is said to have been Aerope's first husband.

* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 32 ), father of the Emperor Nero and maternal uncle to Valeria Messalina

Known as the ' bulwark of the Mycenaeans ', he was trained by the centaur Chiron ( who had trained his father, Telamon, and Achilles ' father Peleus ), at the same time as Achilles.

Alaric II ( Gothic: Alareiks II ), also known as Alarik, Alarich, and Alarico in Spanish and Portuguese or Alaricus in Latin ( d. 507 ) succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on December 28, 484.

He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father ( 1492 ), and King of Poland on the death of his brother John I Albert ( 1501 ).

Together with his father and brothers, Alexios had conspired against Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos ( c. 1183 ), and thus he spent several years in exile in Muslim courts, including that of Saladin.

Alfonso's biological paternity is uncertain: there is speculation that his biological father may have been Enrique Puig y Moltó ( a captain of the guard ), or even an American dental student.

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.