However after the obituary appeared, a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.

Subsequently the Cardinal nephew wrote to the nuncios who resided in the courts of Europe, stating that the excesses committed by the ambassadors had induced the pope to publish the edict.

On 6 January 1762, he wrote to Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, " We ought now to think of preserving for my nephew, by way of negotiation, whatever fragments of my territory we can save from the avidity of my enemies ", which means, if words mean anything, that he was resolved to seek a soldier's death on the first opportunity.

During the 1640s, Saint-Cyran's nephew, Martin de Barcos, who had studied theology under Jansen, wrote several works defending his uncle.

A nephew of Olaus the Elder, Petter Rudebeck, also wrote antiquarian books going even further, purporting to locate the scene of the Trojan War and ancient city of Troy in southern Sweden.

In 1253, upon being commanded to provide in his own diocese for a papal nephew, he wrote a letter of expostulation and refusal, not to the pope himself but to the commissioner, Master Innocent, through whom he received the mandate.

He was never married and had no children, therefore, when he wrote his will he left his estate to his nephew, or his nephew's family if his nephew died before Smithson.

In 1795, he wrote to his nephew, Lord Holland:

Macaulay's nephew, Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, wrote a best-selling " Life and Letters " of his famous uncle, which is still the best complete life of Macaulay.

But as James Croft, who in 1825 first published the poems Cowper addressed to Theodora, wrote, " her father, from an idea that the union of persons so nearly related was improper, refused to accede to the wishes of his daughter and nephew.

Michael Korda, nephew of Alexander Korda, wrote a roman à clef about Oberon after her death entitled Queenie.

According to his nephew Auberon, Alec Waugh " wrote many books, each worse than the last.

Kander, along with Ebb, also wrote songs for Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, and it was set to premiere in London, but the rights were pulled by Wilder's nephew.

He also says that Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, the writers of The Fantasticks, wrote a musical of Wilder's Our Town and it took them thirteen years to write, only to have the rights pulled as well by the nephew.

Poet Han Yu ( 韓愈 ) of the Tang Dynasty, for example, wrote to his nephew who came to see him off after his banishment to the Chao Prefecture in his poem, En Route ( 左遷至藍關示姪孫湘 ):

Anton Pann was a successful novelist, Ienăchiţă Văcărescu wrote the first Romanian grammar and his nephew Iancu Văcărescu is considered to be the first important Romanian poet.

* Philocles: A nephew of the great tragedian, Aeschylus, he wrote a play about Tereus that was a feeble descendant of the Tereus written by Sophocles and he is nicknamed ' Lark ' ( lines 281, 1295 ).

Pierre Duval ( 1618 – 1683 ), a nephew of the French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, wrote various geographical dictionaries.

Even as early as 18 October his aunt, Lady Mary Duncan, wrote to Henry Dundas, at that time secretary of state for war: Report says my nephew is only made a Viscount.

Meanwhile the nephew of Guy, Peter de Vaux de Cernay, arguably a stool-pigeon of De Montfort, his uncle and the papacy, wrote an account of the crusade which many have seen as a transparent piece of propaganda to justify the actions of the crusaders, whose outrages are described consistently as doing the work of God against the heretical agents of the demonic power-while outrages committed by the embattled lords of the Midi are predictably portrayed as the opposite.

* In November 2002 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, nephew of reigning abbot Gregor Henckel Donnersmarck, wrote the screenplay for his film The Lives of Others in a cell at the abbey.

Kilgour and his sister are the great nephew and niece of John McCrae, the soldier and poet who wrote In Flanders Fields, and also the great nephew and niece of John Wentworth Russell, who painted the portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, which hangs in the House of Commons.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

In chapter 21 of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, for example, Poirot talks about a mentally disabled nephew: this proves to be a ruse so that he can find out about homes for the mentally unfit, and in Dumb Witness, Poirot tells of an elderly invalid mother as a pretence to investigate the local nurses.

There is no evidence that Claudius had a direct hand in the assassination, although it has been argued that he knew about the plot — particularly since he left the scene of the crime shortly before his nephew was murdered.

** Imperial Princess Ohotomo or Ohomata ; born about 560 ; married to her nephew Prince Oshisako no Hikohito no Oe, son of Emperor Bidatsu

** Imperial Princess Toneri, born about 565 ; died 603 ; married to her nephew Prince Tame Toyora, son of Emperor Yomei

** Imperial Princess Hasetsukabe no Anahobe no Hashihito, born about 560 ; died 621 ; married ( A ) to her half brother Emperor Yomei ; married ( B ) to her nephew and stepson Prince Tame Toyora, son of Emperor Yomei

After the nephew died without heirs in 1835, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the bequest, which amounted to about US $ 500, 000 ($ 10, 100, 997 in 2008 U. S. dollars after inflation ).

The Anonymous Valesianus tells an account about his choosing of a successor: Anastasius could not decide which of his three nephews should succeed him, so he put a message under a couch and had his nephews take seats in the room, which also had two other seats ; he believed that the nephew to sit on the special couch would be his proper heir.

* Lord Fermor – Lord Henry's uncle, who informs his nephew about Dorian Gray's lineage.

( Silas helped his nephew Sebopioa Molema get to the United States about 1904 to study law at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

He found a loyal ally in Ranulph, Earl of Chester, whose nephew and heir, John the Scot, married Llywelyn's daughter Elen in about 1222.

Stobaeus in the Florilegium relates a story about a symposium, where Solon's young nephew was singing a poem of Sappho's ; Solon, upon hearing the song, asked the boy to teach him to sing it.

" Modern scholars generally accept 556-468 BC for his life in spite of some awkward consequences — for example it would make him about fifty years older than his nephew Bacchylides and still very active internationally at about 80 years of age.

The loyalty of such legions is what allowed Marius himself, Sulla, and about 40 years later Marius ' nephew Julius Caesar to march on Rome itself.

In his memoirs, written shortly before his execution, Frank made the sensational claim that Hitler had commissioned him to investigate Hitler's family in 1930 after a " blackmail letter " had been received from Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who allegedly threatened to reveal embarrassing facts about his uncle's ancestry.

He supported William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk over the king's marriage with Margaret of Anjou ; but afterwards there arose some difference between them, due in part to a dispute about the nomination of the cardinal's nephew, Thomas Kempe, to the bishopric of London.

One of the many theories about the identity of The Man in the Iron Mask is that he was Monmouth: this seems to be based on the unlikely reasoning that James II would not execute his own nephew, so someone else was executed, and James II arranged for Monmouth to be taken to France and put in the custody of his cousin Louis XIV of France.

* Red Crow ( MÉKAISTO, also known as Captured the Gun Inside, Lately Gone, Sitting White Buffalo, and John Mikahestow, * about 1830-d. 28 Aug. 1900 ), nephew of PEENAQUIM, Chief of the Fish Eaters band ( Mamyowis ) of the Kainai, after signing Treaty 7, he centralized the control of several bands and became the leading Head Chief of the Kainai

Squire Western bursts into the room and, on being informed by Allworthy that Tom is his nephew, now becomes as eager for Sophia to marry Jones as he was about Blifil.

" In correspondence to and about his namesake, Samuel Colt referred to him as his " nephew " in quotes.

In or about 1592, his uncle Adam Loftus chancellor-archbishop, who knew how to look after his own family, bestowed upon his nephew a prebend of St. Patrick's, Dublin, without cure.