Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru, requisitioned the services of Mahadev Desai in 1920 from Gandhi to edit the daily newspaper, Independent, from Allahabad.

Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

His cataloguing of 3222 stars was refined in 1807 by Friedrich Bessel, the father of modern astrometry.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

Although Muslim scholars have often debated over who this verse refers to, most classical commentators and modern translators have taken the opinion that this refers to Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

... was also a great and profound chess thinker second only to Steinitz, and his works – Die Blockade, My System and Chess Praxis – established his reputation as one of the father figures of modern chess.

* Christian Bunsen ( librarian ) ( 1770 – 1837 ), chief librarian of Göttingen and professor of modern philology, father of Robert Bunsen

He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

The conversion of the Conservative Party into a modern mass organisation was accelerated by the concept of Tory Democracy attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

For his technical developments, promotion of dairy hygiene and unremunerated propagation of modern cheese-making techniques he has been described as the father of Cheddar cheese.

Many consider New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno the father of the modern gag cartoon ( as did Arno himself ).

Sidney Farber is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy.

Cleisthenes, " father of Athenian democracy ", modern bust.

This brash act ( which ultimately benefited his primary competitors as well as Tolkien ) was really the Big Bang that founded the modern fantasy field, and only someone like my father could have done that.

Chambers has been referred to as the father of the modern encyclopedia for this two-volume work.

He is further considered by many to be the “ father of modern educational science ” ( Hayes, 2007, p. 2 ).

" Noam Chomsky, " egarded as the father of modern linguistics ",

John Nelson Darby was a 19th century English minister considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism, an innovative Protestant movement significant in the development of modern evangelicalism.

In brief, Bacon is considered by some jurists to be the father of modern Jurisprudence.

The problem is that in Old Norse mær means both " daughter " and " wife ," so it is not fully clear if Fjörgynn is Frigg's father or another name for her husband Odin, but Snorri Sturluson interprets the line as meaning Frigg is Fjörgynn's daughter ( Skáldskaparmál 27 ), and most modern translators of the Poetic Edda follow Snorri.

Lincoln became increasingly distant from his father, in part because of his father's lack of education.

Following his education at Balliol, Huxley was financially indebted to his father and had to earn a living.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

Rousseau believed that young boys should avoid formal schooling and pursue instead an “ education direct from nature .” Ampère ’ s father actualized this ideal by allowing his son to educate himself within the walls of his well-stocked library.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.

The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.

Most of his education however, came from his father.

His father was the vicar of Berkeley, so Jenner received a strong basic education.

Although his father was a schoolmaster, his early education was neglected.

By all accounts, Eleanor's father ensured that she had the best possible education.

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.

The death of his father prevented Washington from crossing the Atlantic to receive the rest of his education at England's Appleby School, as his older brothers had done.

Young Fichte received the rudiments of his education from his father.

Because she was not considered physically beautiful, and thus not thought to have much chance of marriage, and because of her intelligence, her father invested in an education not often afforded women.

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

His father presumably gave him the same education that he himself had received, including Greek language.

During his early education, he attended The Pike School ( where his mother taught art ) and enrolled in the Brooks School ( where his father taught ) for one year in North Andover, Massachusetts.

His ancestry was Ashkenazi Jewish, with his paternal line having supplied the rabbis of Trier since 1723, a role that had been taken up by his own grandfather, Meier Halevi Marx ; Meier's son and Karl's father would be the first in the line to receive a secular education.

His father operated a hand laundry while encouraging Leon to pursue his education.

Aged 8, Mao was sent to the local Shaoshan Primary School by his father, who recognised the financial value of a basic education.

Aged 13, Mao finished primary education, and his father had him married to Luo Yixiu ( 1889 – 1910 ), a woman eight years his senior, in order to unite their two land-owning families.

Returning his attention to education, Mao enrolled and dropped out of a series of schools in quick succession ; a police academy, a soap-production school, a law school and an economics school, the latter being the only course which his father approved of.

Margaret's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was a Catholic who became an atheist and an activist for women's suffrage and free public education.