Nolte's maternal grandfather, Matthew Leander King, invented the hollow-tile silo and was prominent in early aviation.

It was home to Matthew M. Neely, grandfather of West Virginia ’ s 21st governor.

His maternal grandfather was the academic Tom Arnold, his great-uncle was poet Matthew Arnold and his great-grandfather was Thomas Arnold of Rugby School.

Her uncle was the poet Matthew Arnold and her grandfather Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School.

The next regent was James's paternal grandfather, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who a year later was carried fatally wounded into Stirling Castle after a raid by Mary's supporters.

Soon following, the four friends meet Mother Firefly ( Karen Black ), Baby's mother ; Otis Driftwood ( Bill Moseley ), Baby's adopted brother ; Grampa Hugo ( Dennis Fimple ), Baby's grandfather ; and Baby's deformed giant half-brother, Tiny ( Matthew McGrory ).

If the Solomonic genealogy of Jesus found in Matthew is correct then James ( Jacob ) would be named after his paternal grandfather, another James ( Jacob ).

He was the grandfather of the physician Patrick Miller ( 1782-1871 ) and of Colonel Matthew Stewart ( c. 1784-1851 ).

; Tertullian, possibly Hegesippus, and Helvidius accepted this view In reference to this it is occasionally noted that James ( Jacob Iakobos ) as oldest of the brothers takes the name of Joseph's father ( also James, Iakobos in the Solomonic genealogy of Jesus in Matthew ), when in Bible times the grandson occasionally gets the name of the grandfather.

In 2010, Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the " official " Hampster Dance song at # 79 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, stating that " This annoying-on-purpose, chipmunks-on-speed bit of nonsense was the grandfather of today's ' Rickroll.

In 1896, William's son, Matthew, named after his grandfather, took over the company.

Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, was his grandfather and Lord Chancellor William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley was an uncle.

His maternal grandfather was Commodore Matthew C. Perry.

Josiah is believed to be Jeconiah's grandfather rather than father, and having the listing of Jeconiah as two separate people would correct the seeming error in Matthew 1: 17.

The name Zadok appears twice in the Old Testament, once for the prominent priest of King David and once as an incidental figure mentioned as the grandfather of Jotham, an individual who was himself mentioned at Matthew 1: 9.

There is some similarity in this passage Matthew gives Joseph's grandfather as Matthan and Luke as Matthat, the other names, however, are wholly different.

In the Gospel of Matthew, Matthan is the paternal grandfather of Joseph, father of Jesus.

At about the same time, a young wheelwright named Jacob Wheeler ( Matthew Settle ) is growing discontented with his settled life in the fictional Wheelerton, Virginia, where he and his brothers work as wheelwrights for his grandfather Abraham, a veteran of the Battle of Yorktown.

In order to get the independence of Portugal recognized by Rome, his grandfather, Afonso I, had to legislate an enormous number of privileges to the Church.

Celsius is buried at Uppsala Church in Gamla Uppsala next to his grandfather

Peckinpah's maternal grandfather was Denver Church, a cattle rancher, Superior Court judge and United States Congressman of a California district including Fresno County.

Through the election of Gregory V, Otto III exercised greater control over the Church than his grandfather Otto I had decades earlier.

In his later years the grandfather became a Christadelphian ; Johnson's father also joined the Christadelphian Church toward the end of his life.

His great great grandfather, the Reverend John Bethune ( 1751 – 1815 ), was the family patriarch and established the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal.

Thus, from birth, Charles Stewart Parnell possessed an extraordinary number of links to many elements of society ; he was linked to the old Irish Parliamentary tradition via his great-grandfather and grandfather, to the American War of Independence via his grandfather, to the War of 1812 ( where his grandfather had been awarded a gold medal by the United States Congress for gallantry ); he belonged to the disestablished Church of Ireland ( its members mostly unionists ) though in later years he was to drop away from formal church attendance ; and he was connected with the aristocracy through the Powerscourts.

Fahrid Murray Abraham ( born October 24, 1939 ) who immigrated from Syria during the 1920s famine ; his paternal grandfather was a chanter in the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Crínán of Dunkeld, the grandfather of Máel Coluim III, was a lay abbot, and tradition says that even the clerical members were married, though unlike the priests of the Eastern Orthodox Church, they lived apart from their wives during their term of sacerdotal service.

His paternal grandfather was a minister with the Free Church of Scotland, and his maternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister.

His grandfather was " a staunch Church of Scotland Presbyterian and his grandmother a poor and illiterate Irish peasant.

His grandfather, Johan Andrew Welhaven ( 1748 – 1811 ) was a teacher and later assistant to the pastor at St Mary's Church ( Mariakirken ), which served the city's German community.

She was under a year old when the family moved from Eufaula to Detroit, Michigan, where her grandfather, Reverend Elijah Reeves, was a minister at Detroit's Metropolitan Church.

His grandfather came to Chicago in 1837 and was one of the founders of the Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church.

Born at Flintham Hall, Flintham, Nottinghamshire, he was the eldest son of John Disney, a former Anglican clergyman who became one of the founders of the Episcopal Unitarian Church, and from a long line of English Dissenters going back to Disney's great-great grandfather John Disney ( rector ) and earlier.

His father was a doctor of theology and philosophy, and his paternal grandfather was a pastor and missionary of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces.

Churchill was born at Chequers when his grandfather was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.

His grandfather was the highly respected Revd Norman MacLeod of the Barony Church, Glasgow, a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Chaplain to Queen Victoria.

Shukri Musa, the maternal grandfather of Edward Said, who was baptized by George Truett at the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, was the first known modern Baptist to enter Israel ( then the British Mandate of Palestine ).

Daniel's grandfather moved from Kneiphof in Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ) to Danzig and settled there as a merchant in 1650.

His father, though a merchant, devoted much of his time to Torah studies ; his grandfather, Mendel Frankfurter, was the founder of the Talmud Torah in Hamburg and unsalaried assistant rabbi of the neighboring congregation of Altona ; and his granduncle, Löb Frankfurter, was the author of several Hebrew works, including Harechasim le-Bik ' ah ( הרכסים לבקעה ), a Torah commentary.

William's great grandfather, Edward Osler, was variously described as either a merchant seaman or a pirate, and one of William's uncles ( Edward Osler 1798-1863 ), a medical officer in the Navy, wrote the Life of Lord Exmouth and the poem The Voyage.

Duncan Smith's matrilineal great-grandmother was a Japanese woman, Ellen Oshey Matsumuro, who married Pamela's grandfather, merchant seaman Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw.

Benjamin D ' Israeli ( 1730 – 1816 ) was an English merchant and financier, grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.

He was the great grandfather of Count Felix von Luckner, a German World War I naval officer who commanded the famed merchant raider SMS Seeadler.

His son and grandson -- respectively the great-grandfather and grandfather of James Martineau -- were surgeons in the same city, while his father was a manufacturer and merchant.

William's grandfather William I Canynges ( d. 1396 ) was also a great Bristol merchant and was also 5 times Mayor of Bristol and 3 times MP for Bristol, in 1383, 1384 and 1386.

Trevelyan was born into late Victorian Britain in Welcombe, Stratford-on-Avon, the large house and estate owned by his maternal grandfather, Robert Needham Philips, a wealthy Lancashire merchant and the Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bury.

His grandfather, Andreas, originally a Bremen merchant, was one of the founders ( on 1 January 1766 ) of the banking-house of Grote, Prescott & Company in Threadneedle Street, London ( the name of Grote did not disappear from the firm till 1879 ).

His grandmother Hopkins was a daughter of Providence settler John Whipple, sister of the wealthy Providence merchant, Joseph Whipple, and aunt to Deputy Governor Joseph Whipple, Jr. Stephen Hopkins ' great grandfather was Thomas Hopkins, who was baptized in Yeovilton, Somerset, England in 1616, the son of William and Joanne ( Arnold ) Hopkins.

He inherited the prominent Hungarian family name of Esterházy through his paternal grandfather ( a Nîmes merchant ) who was born out of wedlock and brought up under the name of Walsin, but was later acknowledged by his mother after the French Revolution of 1848.

One of his biographers documented that Archie's paternal grandfather had moved from Scotland to England, where he became a successful merchant.

His grandfather was a merchant from La Rochelle.

His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a Member of Parliament.

The family lived off an inheritance left by Shaw's merchant grandfather, also named Robert Gould Shaw ( 1776 – 1853 ).

Allawi was born in 1945 to a prominent Shia merchant family ; his grandfather helped to negotiate Iraq's independence from Britain, and his father was an Iraqi Member of Parliament.

* Thomas Pitt ( 1653 – 1726 ), English merchant, grandfather of Pitt the Elder

His maternal grandfather was Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar, a wealthy merchant and banker from Chettinad.

Sidney's maternal grandfather was a small-scale merchant, his paternal grandfather was a rabbi known for his piety and lack of concern for material possessions.

Her father was a tea merchant and the founder of the Horniman Museum ; her grandfather was John Horniman who founded the family tea business of Horniman and Company.

She inherited the surname ' Andresen ' from her paternal grandfather, a Danish merchant.

Her paternal grandfather, A Wong Wong, was a merchant who owned two stores in Michigan Hills, a gold-mining area in Placer County.