Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

That is in the continuance of the `` grandfather clauses '' in their membership requirements.

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

His father and grandfather followed the occupation of stone-cutters or minor statuaries ; and it is said that their family had for several ages supplied Possagno with members of that calling.

The fact of her birth is known because the governor of the settlement, Virginia Dare's grandfather, John White, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.

Head doctor spirit is a grandfather with a long, gray-white beard.

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

In the genealogy which concludes the story, it is pointed out that Obed is the father of Jesse, and thus the grandfather of David.

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

Soon after his father's death Constantius is supposed to have ordered a massacre of his relatives descended from the second marriage of his paternal grandfather Constantius Chlorus, though the details are unclear.

The grandfather-father-son backup method automatically makes three back ups, the grandfather file is the oldest copy of the file and the son is the current copy.

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

Doraemon is sent back in time by a young boy named Sewashi Nobi to improve the circumstances of his great grandfather, Nobita so that his descendants may enjoy a better future.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

The family reached the peak of its power under Fujiwara no Michinaga ( 966-1027 ), a longtime kampaku who was the grandfather of three emperors, the father of six empresses or imperial consorts, and the grandfather of seven additional imperial consorts ; it is no exaggeration to say that it was Michinaga who ruled Japan during this period, not the titular Emperors.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

Through his maternal grandfather, Prince Harry is descended from King Henry IV of France, King Charles II and King James II and VII.

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

He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.

In the following year, Katsuhisa's father and grandfather were killed by Amago Haruhisa, leading Katsuhisa to become a Buddhist monk.

She was given the Buddhist name Kosho by her father and grandfather and is known to members as “ Kosho-sama ” with “ Sama ” being an honorary title.

His grandfather, Walter Dakin, was the local Episcopal priest, and his maternal grandmother, Rose O. Dakin, was a music teacher.

His paternal grandfather was an Episcopal priest born in Camus, near Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from London, England.

On the death of his grandfather Eli he most likely succeeded to the office of high priest, and would have been succeeded by his son Ahijah ( references to Ahitub as the father of are in 1 Sam.

His grandfather Timothy O ' Donovan ( Sr .) was from the town of Skibbereen, being raised there by an uncle, a parish priest, and married Donovan's grandmother Mary Mahoney, who belonged to a propertied family of substantial means which disapproved of him.

She herself is a practitioner of Shinto, living and working at Hikawa Shrine with her grandfather, its head priest.

His paternal grandfather had been a vicar priest in Vester Egede on southern Zealand, Denmark.

Geisel was raised in a Lutheran family ( the grandfather was a priest ) and he claimed to be part of a lower middle class, relatively poor family.

During the burial of the grandfather, his hand comes up out of the dirt and grabs the priest's ankle, and the priest shoots into the ground, killing him.

By 1978 Plantard began claiming that his grandfather had met Bérenger Saunière in Rennes-le-Château, and that the real source of Saunière's wealth was the Abbé Henri Boudet, parish priest of the nearby village of Rennes-les-Bains.

In between hours in the library with Die, he converses with Andrew Fairservice and learns much about goings on at the Manor: there are suspicious visitations by shadowy persons unknown ; the servants fear a ghost which resembles Die's grandfather and haunts the library ; and a mysterious Catholic priest, Father Vernon, is said to visit often but is never seen.

Citing Father Bezdikian, an Armenian priest living in Venice, Italy whose grandfather served and fought during the siege: " Franz Werfel is the national hero of the Armenian people.

Shean went on to some solo film roles: as the professor in San Francisco ( 1936 ), as a priest in Hitler's Madman ( 1943 ), as the grandfather in The Blue Bird ( 1940 ), and in some three dozen other films.

Naren's paternal grandfather was the head priest of the goddess Ksheputeswari in the village of Ksheput, located in the Midnapore district of West Bengal.

His grandfather ( who had dropped the aristocratic " de Luna " upon taking refuge in Cuba ) had been jailed on March 18, 1837 for demanding emancipation of slaves, constitutional freedom for all, and allegedly trying to hang a priest who opposed him.

* Amenhotep, high priest and Ramses ' maternal grandfather: the name of four pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty.

Ardashir's grandfather was a prominent priest of the Goddess Anahita at the nearby temple of Darabgird, " City of Darius.

It may easily be seen, therefore, why Simeon the Just should be termed a survivor of this body, for, according to the tradition current in the circle of scholars, it was this high priest, and not his grandfather Jaddua, who met Alexander the Great, and received from him much honor ( see Yoma 69a ; Meg.

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.

Little is known of his family apart from the fact that he was born in Lancaster as the son of a local tradesman and was the eldest of six children, his grandfather being a Catholic priest in Kirkby Lonsdale where his father was born.

Her grandmother worked as a schoolteacher and her grandfather was a priest.

After practising as a surgeon ( which had been the profession of his maternal grandfather, James Watts, MRCS, of Battle, Sussex ), he was ordained deacon in 1884 and priest in 1885.