Barry was the third son of Major-General Henry Green Barry, of Ballyclough, County Cork, Ireland, and his wife Phoebe Drought, daughter of John Armstrong Drought and Letita Head.

Francis Younghusband was born in 1863 at Murree, British India ( now Pakistan ) to a British military family, being the second son of Major-General John W. Younghusband and his wife Clara Jane Shaw.

Gordon was born in Woolwich, London, a son of Major-General Henry William Gordon ( 1786 – 1865 ) and Elizabeth ( Enderby ) Gordon ( 1792 – 1873 ).

Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster ( born 22 December 1951 ), is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and his wife Hon.

The Honourable Sir Edward Pakenham, second son of the second Baron, was a Major-General in the Army and was killed at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

His son, Major-General John Barton Sterling ( 1840 – 1926 ), after entering the navy, went into the army in 1861, and had a distinguished career ( wounded at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 ), both as a soldier and as a writer on military subjects.

His son John Murray-Aynsley was the father of 1 ) Charles Murray-Aynsley ( 1821 – 1901 ), a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy ; 2 ) George Herbert Murray-Aynsley ( 1826 – 1887 ), a Major-General in the Madras Army, and 3 ) Hugh Murray-Aynsley, a New Zealand politician.

Eglinton was born in Palermo, Sicily, the son of Major-General Archibald Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie ( 30 July 1773 – 4 January 1814 ), the eldest son of Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton.

The Reverend Lord John Thynne, third son of the second Marquess, was sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey ; his seventh son was Major-General Sir Reginald Thomas Thynne ( 1843 – 1926 ).

His second son was the Conservative politician William Beresford, who was the father of Mostyn Beresford ( 1835 – 1911 ), a Lieutenant-General in the Army, and of Edward Marcus Beresford ( 1836 – 1896 ), a Major-General in the Army.

His eldest son, the third Earl, was a Major-General in the Spanish Army and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession.

He was the father of 1 ) Frederick Paget, Member of Parliament for Beaumaris, and 2 ) Leopold Paget, a Colonel in the Royal Artillery, whose son Wellesley Paget became a Major-General in the Royal Artillery.

Lambert Bayly, younger son of the first Baronet, was the father of the Very Reverend John Bayly, Dean of Killaloe, who was the grandfather of ( 1 ) Paget Bayly, a Major-General in the Army, and ( 2 ) John Bayly, a General in the Army.

The latter was the father of 1 ) Sir George Price Webley Hope, an Admiral in the Royal Navy, who was the father of Maurice Webley Hope ( 1901 – 1986 ), a Brigadier in the Army, and 2 ) Herbert Willes Webley Hope ( 1878 – 1969 ), an Admiral in the Royal Navy, whose son Adrian Price Webley Hope was a Major-General in the Army.

His son Frederick Hope was a Major-General in the Army.

The seventh Duke had no sons and was succeeded by his third cousin, Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland, a great-grandson of Major-General Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, fourth son of the third Duke.

Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, fourth son of the third Duke, was a Major-General in the Army.

William Bentinck, eldest son from the second marriage of the 1st Earl, was also a Major-General in the Army.

Alexander Stewart ( 1838 – 1896 ), third son of the ninth Earl, was a Major-General in the Army.

Herbert was the son of Major-General the Hon.

They were both succeeded by their son, the seventh Viscount and eighteenth Baron, who was a Major-General in the Army.

His eldest son, the seventh Baron and first Earl, was a Major-General in the Army, and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.

His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.

Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Mark's, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of the noted Indian administrator, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.

Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.

On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".

Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.

His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon was also a General in the Army.

Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.

Sir Nicholas had laid up a considerable sum of money to purchase an estate for his youngest son, but he died before doing so, and Francis was left with only a fifth of that money.

Abbot was son or grandson ( it is not clear which ) of Sir Thomas Abbot of Easington, East Yorkshire and his mother ( or grandmother ) was of the ancient house of Pickering.

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

Despite victories at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill, in the face of tough Scottish resistance led by Sir Andrew Murray, the son of Wallace's comrade in arms, successive attempts to secure Balliol on the throne failed.

The 5th generation of Keswicks are also active within the organisation, Ben Keswick, son of Simon, is group managing director of Jardine, Cycle & Carriage in Singapore and Adam Keswick, son of Sir Chips Keswick is in charge of Jardine Pacific and Jardine Motors Group in Hong Kong.

But relations between them did turn tense in the year 1617 when Sir Thomas Roe the Elizabethan diplomat warned the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince Shah Jahan, the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out of the province, " then he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas ".

The present Dukes are descended from his fourth son, Sir George, the issue of the three elder being extinct.

His second son was General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, leader of the heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava.

In accordance with his will, the castle passed first to his brother Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son, Sir Robert Dudley.

However, the evidence supplied indirectly by Henry Vane the Elder through his son Sir.

And Charles Stuart, eldest son of the late King, being informed of these transactions, left the Spanish territories where he then resided, and by the advise of Monk went to Breda, a town belonging to the States of Holland: from when he sent his letters and a declaration to the two House by Sir John Greenvil ; whereupon the nominal House of Commons, though called by a Commonwealth writ in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, passed a vote about April 25, 1660, ' That the government of the nation should be by a King, Lords and Commons, and that Charles Stuart should be proclamed King of England.