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' ''.

Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here.

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 maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

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.

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.

With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.

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

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

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

His full nomenclature shows that his grandfather or other ancestor was probably given Roman citizenship by the emperor Antoninus Pius, while proconsul of Asia.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

He was also a paternal grandfather of Alexander the Great.

According to Livy the war was commenced by the Latins who anticipated Ancus would follow the pious pursuit of peace adopted by his grandfather, Numa Pompilius.

He was named after his legal grandfather.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.

As soon as Canova's hand could hold a pencil, he was initiated into the principles of drawing by his grandfather Pasino.

He was a descendant of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, one of whose five sons was Joseph, the grandfather of Abba Mari, who, like his son Moses, the father of Abba Mari, was highly respected for both his rabbinical learning and his general erudition.

He was named after his grandfather, an " elder " Callimachus, who was highly regarded by the Cyrenaean citizens and had served as a general.

Furthermore, Emperor Ai was highly controlled by his grandmother Consort Fu ( consort of his grandfather Emperor Yuan ), who improperly demanded the title of Grand Empress Dowager -- even though she had never been an empress previously and therefore did not properly have that title, and this led to the unprecedented and unrepeated situation of four women possessing empress dowager titles at the same time — Empress Wang ( Emperor Cheng's mother and Emperor Yuan's wife ), Empress Zhao Feiyan ( Emperor Cheng's wife ), Consort Fu, and Consort Ding ( Emperor Ai's mother ).

Her mother Woizer Tishal was a member of a noble family of Begemder, while her paternal grandfather, Ras Wodajo, was a powerful and highly influential figure.

The grandfather became within his own circle a highly esteemed interpreter of Scripture.

His Pākehā father and his relatives, by contrast, were highly educated and sophisticated-one uncle, Roger Duff, was a well-known anthropologist ; his paternal grandfather was liberal magazine editor and literary patron Oliver Duff.

His father and grandfather were eminent highly educated wealthy rich Muslims of their era.

Walter is doing well in business, having been appointed to a position of great confidence and trust, and Dombey is the proud grandfather of both a grandson and grand-daughter whom he dotes on, and the book ends with the highly moving lines :' Dear grandpapa, why do you cry when you kiss me?

His grandfather, Paul Weidhaas, and father Siegfried Finkel were also highly regarded bow makers.

It becomes highly successful and is routinely listed as the grandfather of the fighting game genre.

In response to what Huxley took as a jibe from Wilberforce as to whether it was on Huxley's grandfather's or grandmother's side that he was descended from an ape, Huxley made a reply which he later recalled as being that " asked would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means and influence and yet who employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape ".

* Eli " Pappy " Chandler — Luke's highly respected and hard-working grandfather and patriarch of the family.

Dr. Nicholas Wendish: The grizzled yet highly intelligent head of a speciality medical clinic that treated Lord Jack's former fiance, Deirdre and her grandfather.

His grandfather Gilbert Kitten, father Raymond Belle, and brother Jeff Belle have been highly skilled rescuers in the French military fire service.

Gundry, who is highly skeptical of the earlier parts of Matthew's genealogy, believes that these later figures are likely accurate as it is unlikely no one would know who Joseph's father and grandfather were.

Legates had visited Scotland in the reigns of Alexander's father William I, his uncle Malcolm IV, and his grandfather David I, and Alexander himself had seen a Papal legate hold a council at Perth for four days, making his alleged outrage and threats incongruous and highly improbable.

While Bundy spoke warmly of his grandparents in some interviews and told Ann Rule that he " identified with ", " respected ", and " clung to " his grandfather, he and other family members told attorneys in 1987 that Samuel Cowell was a tyrannical bully and a bigot who hated blacks, Italians, Catholics, and Jews, beat his wife and the family dog, and swung neighborhood cats by their tails.

His maternal grandfather was Bayard Sharp, a widely respected Delaware horseman and a member of the Du Pont family.

But Arulmozhivarman respected the right of his Uncle Uttama Chola, the son of his grandfather ’ s older brother, Gandaraditya, to the throne and crowned him King ".

His grandfather was a respected ulema in Batuhampar, near Payakumbuh.

Regina also came from an accomplished and respected family, her father, Beat Lewis Tscharner, having been a member of the Assembly and her grandfather, Samuel Tscharner, having been Governor and later Mayor of Chillon.

Azam comes from a respected family of Islamic scholars, and was encouraged to pursue Islamic studies from an early age by his father and grandfather.

His maternal grandfather was Learned Hand, Justice of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and one of the most respected jurists in the United States.

His father Sirajuddin and grandfather Maulana Minhajuddin Osman were well respected in the Ghaznvid and Ghurid courts.