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His grandfather, the Right Honourable Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson, was a judge of the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor.
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His paternal grandfather, Verschoyle Cronyn, was the son of the Right Reverend Benjamin Cronyn, an Anglican cleric of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, who served as first bishop of the Anglican diocese of Huron, and founder of Huron College, from which grew the University of Western Ontario.
His father, Leslie Pym, was also a Member of Parliament, while his grandfather, the Right Reverend Walter Ruthven Pym, was Bishop of Bombay.
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Simonds came from a military family: his great-grandfather had been in the Honourable East India Company, and his grandfather had been a major general.
His father's family had a history of involvement in South Australian politics and current affairs: Bray's grandfather was the Honourable Sir John Cox Bray, a former Premier of South Australia.
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The 7th Duke of Marlborough was the paternal grandfather of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ( who was born at Blenheim Palace on 30 November 1874 ).
His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will.
* November 3 – Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur and grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill ( d. 1891 )
Upon the death of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet in 1749, the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street ( a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college ), was applied by his will.
After the Battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461, during the Wars of the Roses, the defeated Lancastrian leader Owen Tudor ( grandfather of the future Henry VII of England ) was taken to Hereford by Sir Roger Vaughan and executed in High Town.
He was born in Gloucestershire, at Pauntley in the Forest of Dean, although his family originated from Kinver in Staffordshire, England, where his grandfather Sir William de Whittington was a knight at arms.
** Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, his grandfather, admiral and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Naples
The king's cousin Sir Robert Stewart, heir to his grandfather Walter, Earl of Atholl, was chamberlain of the royal household and used his privileged position to allow a small band of former Albany adherents led by Robert Graham to enter the building.
Houston's ancestry is often traced to his great-great grandfather Sir John Houston, who built a family estate in Scotland in the late seventeenth century.
He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell.
The Stanleys had been among the earliest supporters of Henry Bolingbroke ’ s bid to win the English throne for the House of Lancaster in 1399 and Stanley ’ s great, grandfather Sir John Stanley, had been richly rewarded for his assistance.
* Sir Francis Uproar, his grandfather, do.
John Wright's son, Francis, married Selina, daughter of Sir Henry FitzHerbert, 3rd Baronet of Tissington Hall, Derbyshire and was a noted philanthropist ; he was Susan's great great grandfather.
His elder son James Erskine Wemyss ( 1789 – 1854 ) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and the grandfather of Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Erskine-Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss ( 12 April 1864 – 24 May 1933 ), known as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss between 1916 and 1919.
Moses Chaim Montefiore, the grandfather of Sir Moses Montefiore, also came to the country at much the same time for precisely the same reason.
His maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, was the head of Ealing Studios.
Although Packer's reputation as an astute businessman was legendary and he made some good investments, he was by no means a self-made man – his grandfather Robert Clyde Packer and his father Sir Frank Packer had built up the media empire and its related holdings over many decades.
Packer's grandfather Robert Clyde Packer owned two Sydney newspapers whilst his father, Sir Frank Packer, was one of Australia's first media moguls, and Kerry's son, James Packer, is Executive Chairman of PBL.
There are also many living descendants of his great-grandson Charles Evelyn, who was the grandfather of the last baronet, Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt.
He was born at Clerkenwell, London, 19 October 1610, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Sir John Poyntz.
Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto.
He married twice and was the father of Sir James Stephen and grandfather of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen and great-grandfather of Virginia Woolf.
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His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.
The young couple settled down in Rome where their first son, Giorgio ( George ) Arnaldo Escher, named after his grandfather, was born.
* 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
First lady Dolley Madison rescued a painting of George Washington, and in 1939, a Canadian man returned a jewelry box to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, claiming that his grandfather had taken it from Washington.
* September 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
As Amelia's adored son George grows up, his grandfather relents and takes him from poor Amelia, who knows the rich and bitter old man will give him a much better start in life than she or her family could ever manage.
Patton's grandfather, Confederate States of America | Confederate Colonel George S. Patton, Sr | George Smith Patton, died in the Battle of Opequon in 1864.
Although he was actually the third George Smith Patton after his grandfather, he was called Junior.
Colonel George S. Patton, his grandfather, was killed during the Battle of Opequon.
George had only just recovered from a serious illness himself, after being confined to bed for six weeks with typhoid fever, the disease that was thought to have killed his grandfather Prince Albert.
His godparents were his paternal grandfather George I, the Elector of Hanover and later King of Great Britain, and his grand-uncle Frederick I, King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg.
In fact, George III, from the moment of his accession, never set foot in the palace ; he associated the state apartments with a humiliating scene when his grandfather had once struck him following an innocent remark.
George Baines was the grandfather of Johnson's mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson ( 1881 – 1958 ).
His grandfather George Sinclair was an innovative naval architect who got the paravane, a mine sweeping device, to work.
* Montague Jetson, the kindly but eccentric grandfather of George Jetson who constantly annoys the cop every time he meets him — Howard Morris ; after Morris ' death: Dan Castellaneta
Bertie's Uncle George is Lord Yaxley, suggesting that he is the eldest living uncle and that Bertie's paternal grandfather likely held the title as well.
William Cecil is best associated with his ownership and preservation of his grandfather George Washington Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate in North Carolina.
His grandfather, William Colfax, had served in George Washington's Life Guard during the American Revolution, became a general in the New Jersey militia and married Hester Schuyler, a cousin of general Philip Schuyler.
* John McCurdy ( b. 1724 ), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy ( source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library ); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy
He in turn had inherited it from his grandfather George W. Binkley who had homesteaded the land and entered it with the government in 1837.
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