In the FX animated series Archer, the titular protagonist's mother mourns the death of her Afghan Hound " Duchess " as a recurring gag throughout the show.

:* William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford ( 1700 – 1731 ), elder son of the 2nd Duchess, predeceased his mother without issue

At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.

Her mother was Elizabeth, Duchess of York, the youngest daughter of the 14th Earl and the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Margaret's last public appearances were at the 101st birthday celebrations of her mother in August 2001, and the 100th birthday celebration of her aunt, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, that December.

His wife Corinne was the first cousin of Alice Warfield, the mother of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor.

Barely eighteen, she was only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the Duchess of Kent, and her mother's advisor, John Conroy.

* Sarah, Duchess of York ( former wife of HRH The Duke of York and the mother of HRH Princess Beatrice and HRH Princess Eugenie )

* HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( widow of HRH The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and mother to the present Duke of Gloucester )

His mother was the Duchess of York ( later Queen Mary ), the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Teck.

Her brother William was a Lutheran but the family was unaligned religiously, with her mother, the Duchess Maria described as a " strict Catholic.

One of his followers accused Elizabeth's mother, the Duchess of Bedford, of practising witchcraft.

She was named a Lady of the Garter in 1477, along with her mother and her paternal aunt Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk.

However, the Duchess of Teck was granted a parliamentary annuity of £ 5000, and received about £ 4000 a year from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.

During the Delicate Investigation, Caroline was not permitted to see her daughter, and afterwards her visits were essentially restricted to once a week and only in the presence of Caroline's own mother, the Dowager Duchess of Brunswick.

Alexandra ( right ) with Louise of Hesse-Kassel | her mother ( centre ) and eldest daughter, Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife | Princess Louise ( left ), 1893

In Portugal, forks began being used with Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, king Manuel I of Portugal's mother.

Through his mother Zita of Bourbon-Parma ( a great-granddaughter of Maria Teresa of Savoy, Duchess of Lucca and Parma, who was a daughter of Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, who in turn was a daughter of Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este and Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Duchess and Duke of Breisgau and Modena ), Robert was a descendant of Ercole III d ' Este, and the blood of last Este dukes thus joined again with the name Austria-Este.

Treaty of Fontainebleau gave the child the right to assume the title Prince of Parma and his mother was soon styled Duchess of Parma.

Grand Duchess Tatiana with her mother in about 1913.

Grand Duchess Tatiana and her mother, Tsarina Alexandra, in about 1914.

Lady Jane's mother was Lady Frances Brandon, the daughter of Suffolk and Princess Mary.

Back in 1937, with the inheritance following the death of his mother, Britten had bought The Old Mill in Snape, Suffolk, which became his Suffolk home, and this is where he spent much of his time in 1944 working on Peter Grimes.

On Margaret's first birthday, the King broke his arrangement with Margaret's father and gave her wardship to William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, although Margaret remained with her mother.

Perche had come to England to try and recover the honour of Perche which had been lost in 1204 by his mother ( a niece of John, King of England ) – this included Newbury and Shrivenham in Berkshire, Toddington in Buckinghamshire, and Haughley in Suffolk.

On 21 May 1553 Guildford Dudley, Northumberland's second youngest son, married Lady Jane Grey, the fervently Protestant daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and, through her mother Frances Brandon, a grandniece of Henry VIII.

She was accepted to the George Washington University in Washington, D. C. and Suffolk University in Boston, where her mother serves as professor of government and previously served as dean of the campus in Dakar, Senegal.

Rochford and Lucy first lived at Easton in Suffolk, a property inherited from his uncle Henry Nassau, and they only moved to the family seat at St Osyth in Essex after the death of Rochford ’ s mother in 1746.

" ESPN later reported that Vick used some of his NFL and endorsement earnings to buy his mother a brand-new house in an upscale section of Suffolk, Virginia.

In 1597 he was summoned to Parliament in right of his mother as Baron Howard de Walden, and in 1603 he was further honoured when he was created Earl of Suffolk.

Rosemary was also the mother of a son, Cameron, who is a Boston lawyer, an adjunct law professor at Suffolk Law School and a convert to Judaism, and two daughters, Diana and Margeret Peggy.

His father, John Frere, the member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and would have been senior wrangler in 1763 but for the competition of William Paley ; his mother, Jane, daughter of John Hookham, a rich London merchant, was cultured and wrote verse in private.

Born in Walberswick, Suffolk, Jennings was the son of Guild Socialists, an architect father and a painter mother.

However, the Charter retained the mansion and grounds of the Duke of Suffolk, known as Suffolk Place and Southwark Place ; these had been assigned to Edward's mother by Henry VIII.

Marsh reprised her role as Rose Buck, who had returned to London to run an agency for domestic servants after a period spent nursing her mother in Suffolk.

The only historic proof of some family quarrel concerning the marriage is written down by Commendone as " the first-born daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, Jane by name, who although strongly depreciating the marriage, was compelled to submit by the insistence of her mother and the threats of her father ".

His sister Margaret was the second wife of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, the mother of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and the grandmother of Lady Jane Grey.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Agrippina wrote a memoir that recorded the misfortunes of her family ( casus suorum ) and wrote an account of her mother ’ s life.

He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in unHomeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Akhilles.

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.

In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.

Chiang's father died when he was only eight years of age, and he wrote of his mother as the " embodiment of Confucian virtues ".

His father was gifted at drawing as well, wooing Alston's mother with small sketches in the medians of letters he wrote her.

The girl's mother wrote letters of complaint to the California Attorney General and to Los Angeles prosecutors.

The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.

E. P. Thompson and his mother wrote There is a Spirit in Europe: A Memoir of Frank Thompson ( 1947 ).

Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother ( who was also his godmother ), Lady Brabourne, about his interest.

He later wrote, " I never had any particular love for the farm — it was the mother on the farm I loved.

Soranus wrote that Hippocrates ' father was Heraclides, a physician, and his mother was Praxitela, daughter of Tizane.

Adams first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Beatrice wrote to him seeking a safe-conduct to explain herself ; this granted, she travelled with her young son Frederick, now Margrave of Tuscany, and her mother, Matilda of Swabia, a sister of the emperor's grandmother Gisela.

To that effect, Cassatt's lifelong friend Louisine Havemeyer wrote in her memoirs: " Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that inherited her ability.

His mother wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook.

He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, and Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations, by his mother, Doralee Patinkin Rubin.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.