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.

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

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ), only child of the above Gnaeus Domitius and Aemilia Lepida, paternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero, maternal grandfather of Valeria Messalina ( third wife of the emperor Claudius )

Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.

Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.

Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton.

Paul's prescience helps him determine the identity of Jessica's father, the " maternal grandfather who cannot be named " — the Baron himself.

His maternal grandfather was Alberto de Acha, one of the three founders of Bacardi Rum.

However, his relatives were not major court officials ; documents show that El Cid's paternal grandfather, Lain, confirmed only five documents of Ferdinand I's, his maternal grandfather, Rodrigo Alvarez, certified only two of Sancho II's, and El Cid's own father confirmed only one.

Originally under the guardianship of his maternal grandfather Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, he displaced Imperial Prince Koretaka ( 惟喬親王 ) as Crown Prince.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

Because consorts of crown princes, younger sons, and emperors were generally Fujiwara women, the male heads of the Fujiwara house were often the father-in-law, brother-in-law, uncle, or maternal grandfather of the emperor.

His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry in northern Ireland and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry.

Germanicus was the grandson-in-law and great-nephew of the Emperor Augustus, nephew and adoptive son of the Emperor Tiberius, father of the Emperor Caligula, brother of the Emperor Claudius, and the maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.

Through Agrippina the Younger, Germanicus was maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.

His maternal grandfather was Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia.

Hawk's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard ( 1845 – 1916 ), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrial endeavors.

She was succeeded by her second cousin, George I, of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI & I.

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

They lived with his maternal grandparents at 2129 Ida Place ( now Ward Place ), NW in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D. C. His father, James Edward Ellington, was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina on April 15, 1879 and moved to Washington, D. C. in 1886 with his parents.

She was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI and I.

In the movie, George and Winona Kirk name their son James Tiberius after his maternal and paternal grandfathers, respectively.

This " forceful maternal action ," as historian Pauline Croft describes it, obliged James to climb down at last, though he reproved Anne for " froward womanly apprehensions " and described her behaviour in a letter to Mar as " wilfulness.

Darnley's maternal grandparents were Archibald Douglas, sixth Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, and widow of James IV, king of Scots.

She went on to become the maternal grandmother of James Forman Jr and Chaka Forman, the two sons of the African-American civil rights leader James Forman by her daughter Constancia Romilly.

His maternal grandfather, James Jarché, was a famous Fleet Street photographer notable for the first pictures of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot ( 1909 ) and the Siege of Sidney Street.

James Solomon McDonald ( later Solomon McDonald Vincent Burke ) was born on the upper floor of the home of his maternal grandmother, Eleanor Alma " Mother " Moore ( born about 1900 in Florence, South Carolina ; died 19 December 1954 in Philadelphia ) in a row house at 3036 Mt Vernon Street, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

His paternal grandfather, James Ormsbee Chapin, was an artist who illustrated Robert Frost's first two books of poetry ; his maternal grandfather was the philosopher Kenneth Burke.

She was baptised at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, by the Bishop of Norwich, on 23 December 1990, she was the first royal baby to have a public christening, and her godparents were James Ogilvy ( her father's second cousin ), Captain Alastair Ross ( who was unable to attend ), Mrs Ronald Ferguson ( her maternal grandfather's 2nd wife ), Mrs Patrick Dodd-Noble, and Miss Louise Blacker.

Layton was cremated following the funeral, with one portion of his ashes scattered on the Toronto Islands, a second portion buried at St. James Cemetery in Toronto under a memorial marker and a third portion planted with a memorial tree at the Wyman United Church cemetery in Hudson, Quebec, where his father and maternal grandparents are buried.

After World War II, she appeared in Alexander Korda's An Ideal Husband ( 1947 ), from the Oscar Wilde play, but her remaining film appearances were in supporting roles, usually maternal, such as in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 ) and as the secretive mother ( of James Mason's character ) in Island in the Sun ( 1957 ).

Liddy was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Sylvester James Liddy and Maria Liddy ; his maternal grandfather was of Italian descent.

He was named for his maternal grandfather, miller John Shaw, and paternal grandfather, carpenter Edward James Brownlee.

* James Brainerd Taylor ( 1801 – 1829 ), maternal cousin of Brainerd ; born Middle Haddam, Connecticut ; buried in Hampden-Sydney College Church cemetery, Virginia ; obelisk in Union Hill Cemetery, Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and Princeton Cemetery of Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, New Jersey ; Lawrenceville School ( N. J ), Princeton University and Yale Divinity School-educated Second Great Awakening evangelist ; primary founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall ( 1825 – 1930, now called Princeton Evangelical Fellowship ); one of some 20, 000 Americans listed in Appletons ' Cyclopedia of American Biography ( 6 vol., 1887 – 89 ).

Osceola's maternal great-grandfather was James McQueen, who was Scots-Irish and in 1714, the first European to trade with the Creek in Alabama.

His maternal grandfather was John James Rowley, a Briton by birth and a home child.

His maternal grandparents, Vincenzo " James " Bavuso and Josephine Savarino Bavuso, were both Italian immigrants.

Castle was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Louisa Johnston ( née Bache ) and James Manderson Castle, Jr. One of Castle's maternal great-great-grandfathers was Virginia Senator John W. Johnston, and Castle's fifth great-grandfather was founding father Benjamin Franklin.

His stepmother, Rebecca Biddle, filled the maternal role ; Cope referred to her warmly, as well as his younger stepbrother, James Biddle Cope.

His maternal grandfather, James Evans, was an English convert to Mormonism.