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.

His father was an upper middle-class cotton merchant, and he was sent away to be educated as a boarder at Shrewsbury School.

Karl's father, Herschel Marx, was middle-class and relatively wealthy: the family owned a number of Moselle vineyards ; he converted from Judaism to the Protestant Christian denomination of Lutheranism prior to his son's birth, taking on the German forename of Heinrich over Herschel.

His father, Salvador Dalí i Cusí, was a middle-class lawyer and notary whose strict disciplinary approach was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domenech Ferrés, who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors.

They were a middle-class family and Protestant by faith ; their father was a master locksmith.

Records from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries show the Rivers family to be solidly middle-class with many Cambridge, Church of England and Royal Navy associations, the most famous of which were Midshipman William Rivers and his father Gunner Rivers who both served aboard HMS Victory.

Drew was born in 1904 into an afro-american middle-class family in Washington, D. C .. His father, Richard, was a carpet layer.

The story itself focuses on two boys at the threshold of adulthood: Julio ( Gael García Bernal ), from a leftist middle-class family, and Tenoch ( Diego Luna ), whose father is a high-ranking political official.

Donahue was born into a middle-class, churchgoing, Irish Catholic family in Cleveland, Ohio ; his father was a furniture sales clerk and his mother a department store shoe clerk.

He was twelve when he met François Chabbey and went for the first time with his father to an Order circle, the brotherhood of the " Hospitaliers veilleurs " in which the mainly middle-class members would serve the poor by providing barber services.

His mother Hadassah Burnet ( née Mackay ) was the daughter of a middle-class Scottish immigrant, and met his father when Frank was working in the town of Koroit.

However, her background is middle-class: her father was the chief fire officer for Hertfordshire, her mother an actor and model for the House of Worth in Paris.

The family was modestly middle-class until his father tried to make a living selling raincoats to soldiers during the Russo-Japanese war.

He is sent to Vietnam, leaving behind his middle-class family, a pregnant girlfriend ( Rose Jackson ), and small time crook Kirby ( Keith David ), who is like a second father.

He is in love with Gertrude Butterwick but her father, named J. G. Butterwick in this novel ( it'll evolve ), feeling that his daughter should not marry some kind of a waster, requires Monty to hold down a job for a full year, and Gertrude, being an old-fashioned sort of girl of solid middle-class stock, refuses to elope with Monty.

" In the first place Flower was not an aristocrat: his family were Puritan in origin, and his father was a brewer: they were middle-class.

The show was highly praised for its realism and sensitivity, with a New York Times reviewer applauding the program's avoidance of stereotyping characters: " Sly, a jiving black student ... has solidly middle-class parents deeply involved in classical music " and a lower-middle-class classmate discovers that her father makes more money as a plumber than James ' professor father.

Marcus Caelius Rufus was born in 88 or 87 BC, at Interamnia in Picenum, where his father was categorized as a member of the eques ( knight ) class, a wealthy middle-class placed just below the patrician upper class.

His father, Andrew Robinson, was a middle-class stockbroker who in 1892 decided to become a clergyman in the Church of Ireland in the small Ballymoney parish, near Ballineen in West Cork.

Born in the Allier département in the Auvergne area of France into a middle-class family, Hubertine Auclert's father died when she was thirteen years old and her mother sent her to live and study in a Roman Catholic convent.

Born into a middle-class family in Huainan, Zhang's shop-owning father was able to pay for his education.

Their father was a New York City police officer who eventually bought a house in the middle-class neighborhood of Rockaway, Queens, and moved there with his wife and eight children.

Their father was a New York City police officer, who eventually bought a house in the middle-class neighborhood of Queens and moved there with his wife and eight children.

My father, a wise man, asked him not to.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

He was six feet one like his father, with big hands and a hairy chest, a man the weak and persecuted would turn to.

His father, although a kind man in private, was also an aggressive prosecuting attorney who tried death penalty cases, arguing strongly for the death penalty to be imposed.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

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

His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

His father asks him " stupid and distressing " questions about his war experiences, not understanding " that a man cannot talk of such things.

Arne confessed to her father that she was with child by the god Poseidon ; her father, however, did not believe her, and handed her over to a man named Metapontus, King of Icaria.

The mother of a bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within 12 months of the birth ( or at any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the child's support within 12 months after the birth ), and the justices, as after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material particular, adjudge the man to be the putative father

The original posters showed Bennett himself ; a kindly looking old man offering guidance and support to would-be students with the phrase " Let me be your father " attached.

He played a lawyer turned bounty hunter who was trying to hunt down John Bly, the man who killed his father.

Though frank in places, Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed ; she suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and source of distress to Charlotte's still-living father, husband and friends.

In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a comic twist was added to rhyming slang by way of spurious and fabricated examples which a young man had laboriously to explain to his father ( e. g. ' dustbins ' meaning ' children ', as in ' dustbin lids ' = ' kids '; ' Teds ' being ' Ted Heath ' and thus ' teeth '; and even ' Chitty Chitty ' being ' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ', and thus ' rhyming slang '...).

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

He is often called " the father of immunology ", and his work is said to have " saved more lives than the work of any other man ".

The man was his father.

* Women were allowed to succeed ( but there existed no known children of theirs whose father did not also happen to be an agnate of the imperial house, thus there is neither a precedent that a child of an imperial woman with a non-imperial man could inherit, nor a precedent forbidding it for children of empresses ).

As a young man, Madero's father sent him to the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris ( HEC ).