Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

The author's paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, an honored participant in the Boston Tea Party, who refused to change the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem " The Last Leaf ".

Watt's grandfather, Thomas Watt, was a mathematics teacher and baillie to the Baron of Cartsburn.

Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, to Euphemia McBain " Effie " ( née McLean ), a cleaning woman, and Joseph Connery, a factory worker and lorry driver.

Thomas Jefferson was little interested and indifferent to his ancestry and he only knew of the existence of his paternal grandfather.

Thomas Marshall's paternal grandfather, Riley Marshall, immigrated to Indiana in 1817 and settled on a farm in what is now Whitley County.

Although his grandfather, Thomas Whitehead, was known for having founded Chatham House Academy, a fairly successful school for boys, Alfred North was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, then considered the best public school in the country.

As a result of the two Thomas Lincolns living in Kentucky over a 25-year period between 1789 and 1814, area residents in both Tennessee and Kentucky often confuse Hananiah's son as the father of President Lincoln and Hananiah Lincoln as the paternal grandfather of President Lincoln.

His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda ; Douglas's maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda, as a Member of the Parliament of Bermuda ( MCP ), and as commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery.

" Later, the dispute became worse when two more cases involving members of the House of Commons — Thomas Dalmahoy and Arthur Onslow ( grandfather of Arthur Onslow the noted Speaker ( 1728 – 1761 ))— came before the House of Lords.

* Buckingham's paternal grandfather was Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who was the grandson and senior descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III.

* 1850s Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr., grandfather of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and his brother Jesse Thomas Johnson, set up a cattle business in Johnson City.

In 1892 Thomas Henry Huxley's five-year-old grandson Julian saw this engraving and wrote his grandfather a letter asking:

His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and his half-brother a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, Andrew Huxley ; his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley ; and his paternal grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin and proponent of evolution.

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.

Huxley grew up at the family home in Surrey, England where he showed an early interest in nature, as he was given lessons by his grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley.

Both her father and grandfather had practised law in the Norfolk area, and her sister Audrey was married to Thomas Gawdy, a lawyer and Justice of the Court of King's Bench with links to the Earl of Arundel, something that later served Edward well.

* Thomas Beecham ( chemist ) ( 1820 – 1907 ), British chemist, grandfather of the conductor

Andy's grandfather, Thomas Devine Sr., was born in 1842 in County Tipperary, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in 1852.

* Benjamin Franklin's grandfather Thomas Franklin is buried in Banbury.

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

A brutal and insufficiently researched entry in the Dictionary of National Biography suggested that she embellished her surname as Primrose-Pechey, when it derived from her paternal grandfather John Thomas Primrose Pechey.

Elizabeth ’ s grandfather, owner of the family engineering works, Richard Garrett & Sons, had died in 1837, leaving the business to his eldest son, Elizabeth ’ s uncle.

His aunts included Hollywood film stars Constance and Joan Bennett, from whom he was estranged, and his maternal grandfather was the celebrated matinée idol Richard Bennett.

His maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lockhart Ovey, DSO, was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1927.

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.

The originally selected pseudonym (" Gus Pillsbury ") was the name of King's maternal grandfather ; but at the last moment King changed it to " Richard Bachman ," in tribute to crime author Donald E. Westlake's long-running pseudonym Richard Stark.

Arms of King Richard I adopted towards the end of his reign, a version of the lion emblems or recognizance used on the shield of his grandfather Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou ( d. 1151 ), which became fixed during his reign as the Royal Arms of England: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or

Patrick fetched the shotgun of his late paternal grandfather Mayor Richard J. Daley from the house and gave it to his cousin, R. J. Vanecho, 17.

The following year, she played her last great leading role in a superlative film, The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), based upon a Tennessee Williams play and starring Richard Burton as an atheist clergyman and Deborah Kerr as a gentle artist traveling with her aged poet grandfather.

In 1399, both Henry's grandfather and King Richard II died, bringing the Lancastrian usurpation that brought Henry's father to the throne, and Henry was recalled from Ireland into prominence as heir to the Kingdom of England.

Upon the death of the Black Prince the duchy of Cornwall passed to his nine-year-old son, who would eventually succeed his grandfather as Richard II.

* Richard Bache – Bache's grandfather

# Isabel Marshal ( 9 October 1200 – 17 January 1240 ), married ( 1 ) Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, whose daughter Isabel de Clare married Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale, the grandfather of Robert the Bruce ; ( 2 ) Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall

Her paternal grandfather Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury was the brother of Buckingham's paternal grandmother ( also named Anne Neville ), making Buckingham the Queen's second cousin.

Mitford's grandfather, Algernon Freeman-Mitford, had been a friend of Richard Wagner, one of Hitler's idols, and had translated the works of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, another inspiration for Hitler.

* Sam Nixon, the grandfather of President Richard Nixon was born, raised and lived most of his life in the township before his son ( the president's father ) Francis A. Nixon moved to nearby Ohio and subsequently California.

His maternal grandfather, Richard Coke Marshall, was a colonel for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and great grandson of the first supreme court justice, John Marshall.

* Richard ( died 1762 ), married Margaret Meadows ; his eldest son, Philip Taylor ( 1747 – 1831 ), was presbyterian minister at Kay Street, Liverpool ( 1767 ), and at Eustace Street, Dublin ( 1771 ), and grandfather of Meadows Taylor ; his second son, John Taylor, the hymn-writer.

In 1625 he inherited from his grandfather the manors of Great Tew and Burford in Oxfordshire, and, about the age of 21, married Lettice, daughter of Sir Richard Moryson, of Tooley Park in Leicestershire.

His maternal grandfather, Richard Palamountain, was a British orphan of Cornish parentage who was emigrated to Canada as one of the Home Children.

Their son, Richard Curzon-Howe, succeeded his paternal grandfather as Viscount Curzon in 1820 and was created Earl Howe in 1821 ; he was succeeded by his son, George ( 1821 – 1876 ).

He was the cousin of writer-illustrator David Hunter Strother ( who would also serve as a Union Army general ) and his maternal grandfather was Richard Stockton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Both his father, then styled Earl of Surrey and his grandfather, John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk fought for King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, in which the latter was killed.

Richard Woodville ( or Wydeville ), 1st Earl Rivers, KG ( 1405 – 12 August 1469 ) was an English nobleman, best remembered as the father of Elizabeth Woodville and the maternal grandfather of Edward V and the maternal great-grandfather of Henry VIII.