His paternal grandfather, also named Abner, had fought in the American Revolutionary War.

After this deed he fled to Talmai, the king of Geshur () ( see also or ), his maternal grandfather, and it was not until three years later that he was fully reinstated in his father's favour and finally returned to Jerusalem.

This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.

He was also a paternal grandfather of Alexander the Great.

He was also the father of Pepin the Short and grandfather of Charlemagne.

Both McLean's grandfather and father were also named Donald McLean.

His grandfather, also named Edward, had lost all of his assets as a result of the South Sea Bubble stock market collapse in 1720, but eventually regained much of his wealth, so that Gibbon's father was able to inherit a substantial estate.

Through his paternal grandfather, he is also a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

John Hanson was of English ancestry ; his grandfather, also named John, came to Charles County, Maryland, as an indentured servant around 1661.

His grandfather was Uttamchand Gandhi, also called Utta Gandhi.

Mehmed I also completed the mosque at Bursa, which his grandfather Murad I had commenced, but which had been neglected during in reign of Bayezid.

He was also a holder of the Peruvian Order of Merit, as was his grandfather, Don Antonio Bentin Palamero, for his work leading the fundraising for the Peruvian Earthquake Appeal.

Federal investigators also questioned some of Milken's relatives — including his aging grandfather — about their investments.

( He is the second king Mosiah, as his grandfather was also King Mosiah.

King Mosiah's grandfather Mosiah, had also translated some writings found on a large stone which touched upon these people.

Machiavelli's literary executor, Giuliano de ' Ricci, also reported having seen that Machiavelli, his grandfather, made a comedy in the style of Aristophanes which included living Florentines as characters, and to be titled Le Maschere.

Søren's father, Niels's grandfather, Hans Mathias Abel, was also a pastor, at Gjerstad near Risør.

Crowe's maternal great-great-grandmother was Māori, and his paternal grandfather was from Wrexham, Wales ; Crowe also has Scottish, Norwegian, English, and German ancestry.

His maternal grandfather, John Sampson, was a Cornish miner from Penzance who also came to seek his fortune on the goldfields, in Ballarat.

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Worf's grandfather Colonel Worf ( also portrayed by Michael Dorn ) appears in a role as the legal advocate of Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy after they are accused of killing Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon High Council.

He also demonstrated a precocious talent for building, impressing his father Jahangir at the age of 16 when he built his quarters within his great grandfather the Mughal Emperor Babur's Kabul fort and redesigned buildings within Agra fort.

He was also mourning the death of his grandfather to whom he had great attachment.

Pope Leo IX ( in office 1049 to 1054 ) also had family ties to the dynasty, since his grandfather Hugo III was the brother of Adelheid, the grandmother of Henry III.

In Salvadoran mythology, he was also the grandfather of Cipitio.

Elias ' paternal grandfather, Elie ( sometimes called Elias ) Boudinot, was the son of Jean Boudinot and Marie Suire of Marans, Aunis, France.

" In Ezra and he is called " the son of Iddo ," who was properly his grandfather.

Adams ' grandfather, also called Gerry Adams, had been a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) during the Irish War of Independence.

Although he was actually the third George Smith Patton after his grandfather, he was called Junior.

Following the death of Margaret in 1290, John Balliol was a competitor for the Scottish crown in the so called ' Great Cause ', as he was a great-great-great-grandson of King David I through his mother ( and therefore one generation further than his main rival Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale, grandfather of the Robert the Bruce who later became king ), being senior in genealogical primogeniture but not in proximity of blood.

The Lord called Jeremiah to prophetic ministry in about 626 BC, about one year after Josiah king of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather.

Sometimes called Rabbi Judah Nesi ' ah, and occasionally Rebbi like his grandfather.

Unable to find the murderers, Diomedes founded a mythical city called " Oenoe " at the place where his grandfather was buried to honour his death.

Her maternal grandfather was a nobleman called Cassander who was the brother of Regent Antipater and through her mother was a relation to his family.

Tumuitearetoka saw his chance to strike, but Moko, Ngaru's grandfather, was sitting on a high rock and called out " The shark is below you!

Had he taken his father's name ( rather than his grandfather ) the royal English Dynasty that ruled England for the next hundred years would have been called The Meredith Dynasty.

He has been called " the grandfather of jazz violinists " and continued playing concerts around the world well into his 80s.

Pedogenesis ( from the Greek: ' pedo-or pedon ' meaning ' soil, earth ' and genesis meaning ' origin, birth ') is the science and study of the processes that lead to the formation of soil ( soil evolution ) and first explored by the Russian geologist Vasily Dokuchaev ( 1846 – 1903 ), the so called grandfather of soil science, who determined that soil formed over time as a consequence of climatic, mineral and biological processes which he demonstrated using the soil forming equation:

Her grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

The next year ( 21 January 1715 ), Johanna gave birth to a son, called August Adolf after his grandfather ; the child only lived a few hours.

Bavarian tradition called for the heart of the king to be placed in a silver urn and sent to the ( Chapel of the Miraculous Image ) in Altötting, beside those of his brother, father and grandfather.

Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, reported witnessing what he called " a fiery ball " while in the company of his grandfather, Tsar Alexander II: " Once my parents were away ," recounted the Tsar, " and I was at the all-night vigil with my grandfather in the small church in Alexandria.

While grandfather Alija was a soldier in Üsküdar, he married a Turkish woman called ' Sıdıka Hanım '.

It divides into syllables referring to the Colima Volcano, also called “ grandfather ” and the work for hand or dominion.

A large tall-case clock, commonly called a grandfather clock, built in Boston by John and Thomas Seymour, c. 1795-1805, stands in the northeast portion of the room.

He was born in 362 / 361 BC, as the second son of Agathocles and his wife, perhaps named Arsinoe and his paternal grandfather may have been called Alcimachus.

He was the third of four generations to bear the name " George Wallace ," but as neither parent liked the designation " Junior ", he was called " George C ." to distinguish him from his father, George, and his grandfather, a physician.