Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

Through quiet laughter his mother said, `` Don't speak to your father like that, Richard ''.

He married the heiress of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, whose father had inherited the castle and estate of Abergavenny, and was summoned in 1392 to parliament as Lord Bergavenny.

They found 115 investors to back the $ 350, 000 production, including Richard Rodgers and Sondheim's father.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

Her father is actor Richard Davalos.

* 1942 – Richard Williams, father of Venus Williams and Serena Williams

Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in the summer of 1907, they did not see the husband and father Richard Blair until 1912.

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

Richard replaced his father as King of England afterward.

It follows the Saxon protagonist, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favour with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king, Richard I of England.

Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, Cedric's ward and a descendant of the Saxon Kings of England.

With his primary heir dead, Henry rearranged the plans for the succession: Richard was to be made King of England, albeit without any actual power until the death of his father ; Geoffrey would retain Brittany ; and John would now become the Duke of Aquitaine in place of Richard.

John initially remained loyal to his father, but changed sides once it appeared that Richard would win.

Richard backed Guy, his vassal from Poitou, while Philip supported Conrad, a cousin of his late father Louis VII.

In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.

After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father Oliver as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers ' coup in April, 1659, the officers re-summoned the Rump Parliament to sit.

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

Philip initially allied with Henry's young sons, Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland, who were in rebellion against their father.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

His father had retired to Southwold, Suffolk by this time ; Blair was enrolled at a crammer there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his classics, English and History.

Eleanor Jacques was now married and had gone to Singapore and Brenda Salkield had left for Ireland, so Blair was relatively isolated in Southwold — working on the allotments, walking alone and spending time with his father.

Fellows and alumni have included Archbishop William Laud, Jane Austen's father and brothers, the early Fabian intellectual Sidney Ball, who was very influential in the creation of the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ), Rushanara Ali, Labour Politician and one of the first Bangladeshis to gain a PPE degree at St John's College and more recently, Tony Blair, former prime minister of the United Kingdom.

D. M. Bare moved with his wife to Spang's Mill in 1864 after having purchased the " Mill Seat Tract " with his father, a farmer from Sinking Valley in Blair County, north of Altoona.

Antony Booth, father of Cherie Blair and father-in-law of former Prime Minister Tony Blair resides in Todmorden.

Lloyd Dubroff, Jessica's father, was Lisa Blair Hathaway's common-law husband when Jessica and her brother were born.

His father was John Blair, an Edinburgh merchant.

* Leo Blair ( senior ), father of former Prime Minister Tony Blair and high court judge Sir William Blair, was raised on Golspie Street.

His father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., was, as editor of the Washington Globe, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party during the Jacksonian era, and as a boy Montgomery " often listened to the talk of his father and Andrew Jackson.

He undertook work for the Duke of Atholl at Blair Castle in Perthshire, and was expected to take over the family business from his father.

* Leo Blair, the father of Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was born in Filey.

Blair was born in Caroline, New York, in a log cabin built by his father George Blair of Scottish ancestry.

It was reportedly the first cabin in Tompkins County, New York and Blair lived there until age 17, helping his father farm the land.

Hunt tracked down her father's father Blair Hunt shortly before he died in 1978 to find him living sedately in a seedy part of town with his companion of 60 years.

After reaching the rank of lieutenant and completing his military service, Blair Hull turned to the classroom, teaching high school level math and physics before becoming a student again himself and going on to higher education with the GI Bill, as his father had done before him.

Warhol's father worked in a coal mine.

His father Isamu, a member of a former samurai family from the Akita Prefecture, worked as the director of the Army's Physical Education Institute's lower secondary school, while his mother Shima came from a merchant's family living in Osaka.

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 ).

Walter Quin, tutor to the future Charles I, worked hard on multilingual anagrams on the name of father James.

His father worked as the Chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, for the years 1952 – 55.

In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.

Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his own father ( Charles Bardot ) in the family business.

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.

Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".

Michael's father Joey Carew worked with him on his cricketing and personal career development.

For nine years after his father died, he worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, attended USC, reviewed some movies, and wrote 88 short stories and six novels that were rejected for publication.

Hilbert, the first of two children of Otto and Maria Therese ( Erdtmann ) Hilbert, was born in the Province of Prussia-either in Königsberg ( according to Hilbert's own statement ) or in Wehlau ( known since 1946 as Znamensk ) near Königsberg where his father worked at the time of his birth.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager ( Hopper has acknowledged, though, that his father was in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in China with Mao Zedong ).

Sapir was born into a family of Lithuanian Jews in Lauenburg in the Province of Pomerania where his father, Jacob David Sapir, worked as a cantor.

Sapir worked with his father to transcribe a number of Paiute songs that Tillohash knew.

They eventually settled in an Italian ghetto in Los Angeles, where Capra's father worked as a fruit picker and young Capra sold newspapers after school for the next 10 years, until he graduated high school.

His father worked for the Compagnia dei Bardi and in the 1320s married Margherita dei Mardoli, of an illustrious family.

His parents were middle class ; his father, the Wallonian Alexis Remi, worked in a candy factory, whilst his mother, the Flemish Elisabeth Dufour, was a homemaker.

Pei's father urged him to remain in the United States, and he worked for two years at the Boston engineering firm of Stone & Webster.

His father connection with Bobby was discovered, so the people that worked for Graydon captured him and almost beat him to death.

His mother, of Irish and German descent, had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman of Czech and German descent who worked for the B. F. Goodrich Company.