the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.

He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband and father of four children.

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

Lawhead alters the standard Arthurian story somewhat, in that he has Aurelius marry Igraine and become the true father of King Arthur ( Uther does marry his brother's widow, though ).

His family was wealthy and well established ; his father Euphorion was a member of the Eupatridae, the ancient nobility of Attica, though this might be a fiction that the ancients invented to account for the grandeur of his plays.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

The children of a concubine were recognized as legal offspring of the father ; though their inheritance rights may have been inferior to younger children of a marriage, or they may have received a smaller inheritance.

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

Ralph was a hard teacher for Earnhardt, and after Ralph died of a heart attack at his home in 1973, it took many years before Earnhardt felt as though he had finally " proven " himself to his father.

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 ).

Even though Eva Sapir was an important influence, Sapir received his lust for knowledge and interest in scholarship, aesthetics and music from his father.

The only direct written reference to Eormenric is in Kentish genealogies, but Gregory of Tours does mention that Æthelberht ’ s father was the king of Kent, though Gregory gives no date.

Hubble was also a dutiful son, who despite his intense interest in astronomy since boyhood, surrendered to his father ’ s request to study law, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oxford, though he managed to take a few math and science courses.

There he won a play-writing scholarship, which furthered his interest in directing theater, though this wasn't approved by his father, who wanted him to study engineering.

He maintains a low public profile, though he has occasionally given interviews about the few memories he has of his father.

The study also suggests that per year increases in the portion of father / son family household income generated by fathers / sons have slowed ( from an average of 0. 9 % to 0. 3 %), barely keeping pace with inflation, though increases in overall father / son family household income are progressively higher each year because more women are entering the workplace, contributing to family household income if they're married or cohabitating.

Hedwig and Henry had several daughters, though only one surviving son, Henry II the Pious, who succeeded his father as Duke of Silesia and Polish High Duke.

Harry then accompanied either both parents or his father on subsequent tours, though he only began solo official engagements after his military training and active service.

Her father Jobst initially opposed a marriage despite Kepler's nobility ; though he had inherited his grandfather's nobility, Kepler's poverty made him an unacceptable match.

* The armed seizure of six-year-old Elián González and his return to his father, who eventually took him home to Cuba ; Elián's mother and stepfather had died in a dangerous trip by sea, and though his U. S. relatives had lost custody to his father in court, local officials did not enforce the ruling.

His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

His father was a merchant who came to the island from France to deal with the business affairs of a deceased uncle, and married his widow.

His father, Elias Boudinot III, was a merchant and silversmith ; he was a neighbor and friend of Benjamin Franklin.

His father, Thomas Gerry, was a merchant operating ships out of Marblehead, and his mother, Elizabeth ( Greenleaf ) Gerry, was the daughter of a successful Boston merchant.

Part of a well-established and colorful Boston family, Melville's father spent a good deal of time abroad as a commission merchant and an importer of French dry goods.

337 – 45 ), listening to his father's accounts of his own sea voyages as a merchant The father probably spoke in the Aeolian dialect of Cyme but Hesiod probably grew up speaking the local Boeotian dialect.

* Isaac of York – the father of Rebecca ; a Jewish merchant and money-lender

His father was Hugh Macdonald, an unsuccessful merchant, who had married Helen Shaw on 21 October 1811.

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

He was born in Coleman Street in the City of London, where his father was a merchant.

His father Niccolò was a merchant who traded with the Middle East, becoming wealthy and achieving great prestige.

Anne Marie Simonsen was from Risør ; her father, Niels Henrik Saxild Simonsen, was a tradesman and merchant ship-owner, and said to be the richest person in Risør.

His Protestant father, Captain Roger Casement of ( The King ’ s Own ) Regiment of Light Dragoons, was the son of a bankrupt Belfast shipping merchant ( Hugh Casement ), who later moved to Australia.

According to most sources, her father, Ambroise-Franҫois, was a wealthy silk merchant.

His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous merchant.

Theodore's father, known in the family as " Thee ", was a New York City philanthropist, merchant, and partner in the family glass-importing firm Roosevelt and Son.

His father, John Butler Yeats ( 1839 – 1922 ), was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier and linen merchant who died in 1712.

His father was a glass and china merchant.

His father, James Williams ( 1562 – 1620 ), was a merchant tailor in Smithfield, England.

' Rich ' was an epithet sometimes given to his wealthy merchant father.

Beiderbecke's father, the son of German immigrants, was a well-to-do coal and lumber merchant, named after the Iron Chancellor of his native Germany.

His father became a rug merchant after emigrating to the United States, and expected that his son would go into the family business.

Due to a promise he had made to his father, which Arthur refused to break even after Henrich Floris's death, he felt obliged to go on with his merchant apprenticeship.