The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.

Lincoln reported that after dinner Oxford spoke of the Queen's impending death, claiming that the peers of England should decide the succession, and suggested that since Lincoln had ' a nephew of the blood royal ... Lord Hastings ', he should be sent to France to find allies to support this aim.

* Lord Saint-George – Lord Peter's nephew, an undergraduate at The House

Harriet Vane and Saint-George, the undergraduate nephew of Lord Peter, help give variety, and the college setting justifies good intellectual debate.

Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, who detests Wimsey, and their devil-may-care heir, Viscount St. George ( Wimsey's nephew, who likes him ), also make appearances in the novels, as does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter.

At this time, Lord Peter was considerably influenced by his maternal uncle Paul Delagardie, who took it upon himself to instruct his nephew in the facts of life as Paul himself understood them-i. e.

A second nephew, Niccolò, was made reigning Prince of Piombino and Lord of the Isola d ' Elba in 1634, having married the heiress, 30 March 1632.

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

* March 11 – Lord Henry Brandon, nephew of King Henry VIII ( d. 1523 )

Although Burke himself was largely alone in defecting to Pitt in 1791, much of the rest of the party, including the influential House of Lords leader the Duke of Portland, Rockingham's nephew Lord Fitzwilliam, and William Windham, were increasingly uncomfortable with the flirtations of Fox and his allies with radicalism and the French Revolution.

Richard was named Lord Protector for his 12-year-old nephew Edward V. However, on 25 June 1483, Edward and his siblings were declared illegitimate, and Richard ascended the throne as King Richard III.

William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset ( a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young Edward VI.

Thomas II ( c. 1199, Montmélian – February 7, 1259 ) was the Lord of Piedmont from 1233 to his death, Count of Flanders jure uxoris from 1237 to 1244, and regent of the County of Savoy from 1253 to his death, while his nephew Boniface was fighting abroad.

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, KG, ( c. 1500 – 22 January 1552 ) was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI ( 1547 – 1553 ), in the period between the death of Henry VIII in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549.

He returned to court a few months before Henry's death and saw his brother Edward become Lord Protector of England and, in effect, ruler of the realm as Regent for his nephew, Henry VIII's minor son and successor, the short-lived Edward VI.

He was the nephew of Admiral Henry D ' Esterre Darby and his middle name was given in recognition of his godfather and family friend, Lord Nelson.

Martinsburg was founded in 1778 by General Adam Stephen who named it in honor of Colonel Thomas Bryan Martin, a nephew of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

At the accession of George I, he was made Viscount Sunbury and Earl of Halifax, with remainder to heirs male, a Knight of the Garter, and First Lord of the Treasury, with a grant to his nephew of the reversion of the Auditorship of the Exchequer.

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

The estate subsequently passed to the Bruce family, and then to Lord Carleton, who bequeathed it to his nephew Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry.

De Gray's nephew, Walter de Gray, secured the office of Lord Chancellor with his uncle's help in 1205.

The elder de Gray was instrumental in securing the selection of his nephew as Lord Chancellor, as he was a surety for Walter's payment of a fine of 5000 marks to acquire the position.

The same year he appeared as Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, having previously played Bilbo's nephew Frodo Baggins in a 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.

Gregory's great nephew Nichobulos served as his literary executor, preserving and editing many of his writings.

In 1534, after Farnese had become pope Pope Paul III, Cervini was appointed a papal secretary ( 1534 – 49 ) and served as a close advisor to the pope's nephew Alessandro Farnese.

No other member of the Matheson family became active in the firm after Percival, though another nephew, Donald Matheson, served as director.

His uncle Duke William of Inner Austria, then head of the rivaling Leopoldinian line, served as regent for his nephew, followed by his brothers Leopold IV and Ernest the Iron in 1406.

* Prince Dorgon of the Qing Dynasty served as regent for his nephew, Emperor Shunzhi, from 1643 to 1650, because the latter was only six at the time of his ascension.

After 1848, when his nephew, Louis Napoleon, became President of the French Republic, he served in several official roles, being created 1st Prince of Montfort.

His nephew, Theodore Dwight Woolsey ( 1801 – 1889 ), served as Yale's president between 1846 and 1871.

Valentine Sevier ( 1780 – 1854 ), a nephew of John Sevier who served as Greene County Court Clerk, freed his slaves in the 1830s and offered to pay for their passage to Liberia, which had been formed as a colony for freed slaves.

The town is named after Plácido Benavides, namesake nephew of Plácido Benavides ( 1810 – 1837 ), Tejano 1832 alcalde of Victoria, who served under Stephen F. Austin with Juan Seguin, in the Siege of Bexar.

* John W. Johnston, ( 1818 – 1889 ), nephew of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, served as United States Senator after Virginia readmitted to the Union in 1869.

John Louis then served as the slave, non-combatant, personal-body-servant to his older nephew John Claiborne Thompson ( April 3, 1828-February 2, 1872 ), the son of his deceased half-sister Elizabeth Little Brown ( February 2, 1792-December 10, 1854 ), during John Claiborne Thompson's 12 months of service from May 1861 to May 1862 in the American Civil War, as evidenced by John Louis's application for a pension late in life.

Arent's nephew, Abraham De Peyster, was a loyalist Officer who served with the King's American Regiment and was at Battle of King's Mountain ; Abraham was married to Catherine Livingston, a granddaughter of Philip Livingston ( 1686 – 1749, and 2nd Lord of the Manor ).

Other minor, but notable characters include Donald Duck, who left Huey, Dewey and Louie in Scrooge's care at the start of the series ; Gladstone Gander, Scrooge's inexplicably lucky nephew ; Scrooge's old flame, Glittering Goldie ; Merlock, a powerful magician who served as the movie's main villain ; and Dijon, a thief who worked either on his own or for Merlock.

From 10 November 1947 until 24 November 1947, Rajaji served as Acting Governor-General of India in the absence of the Governor-General Lord Mountbatten, who was on leave in England to attend the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Mountbatten's nephew Prince Philip.

His brother Thomas and nephew Christopher both served on his staff during the campaign.

His nephew, R. Lawton Jordan, served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs during Bill Clinton's administration.

His nephew was Sir Eyre Coote, GCB who served as Governor General of India.

An older eunuch, Gao Yanfu ( 高延福 ), took Lishi as an adoptive son ( and thus had Lishi take his own name of Gao ), and as Gao Yanfu had previously served Wu Zetian's powerful nephew Wu Sansi the Prince of Liang, he had Gao Lishi serve Wu Sansi.

One of his sons, Marc MacSharry, is a current member of Seanad Éireann, while his nephew Tom MacSharry was a Councillor on Sligo Borough Council, 2004 – 2009, and served as Mayor in 2006 – 07.

Senator Vandenberg's nephew, U. S. Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, served as Air Force Chief of Staff and Director of Central Intelligence.

Senator Vandenberg's great nephew, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr., served as a Major General in the Air Force.

He was the first Duke of Coimbra, a well-travelled man who served as Regent during the minority of his nephew Afonso V ;

His ancestry went back to some of the earliest settlers of the Province of New Hampshire, and he was grandson of John Wentworth, who served as the province's lieutenant governor in the 1720s, a nephew to Governor Benning Wentworth, and a descendant of " Elder " William Wentworth.

His nephew, Lewis Richard Morris, served in the Vermont legislature and in the United States Congress.

Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke (; 23 May 1848, Biendorf – 18 June 1916 ), also known as Moltke the Younger, was a nephew of Field Marshal Count Moltke and served as the Chief of the German General Staff from 1906 to 1914.