Imposture is hereditary ; and as soon as the son of a conjuror enters his twentieth year, his right ear is pierced, he is required to wear a ring, and he is trusted with the secrets of the craft.

Soon after this Pekah was assassinated by Hoshea, the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of Jotham of Judah.

When their first son was young, they moved to Los Angeles, California, where the family and its descendants became leaders in the twentieth century.

Lyon ’ s business passed into the hands of his son and grandson, who built graceful wooden craft in Leavenworth well into the twentieth century.

Khosrau I ( also called Chosroes I in classical sources, most commonly known in Persian as Anushirvan or Anushirwan, Persian: انوشيروان meaning the immortal soul ), also known as Anushiravan the Just or Anushirawan the Just ( انوشیروان عادل, Anushiravān-e-ādel or انوشيروان دادگر, Anushiravān-e-dādgar ) ( r. 531 – 579 ), was the favourite son and successor of Kavadh I ( 488 – 531 ), twentieth Sassanid Emperor ( Persian: Shahanshah, Great King ) of Persia, and the most famous and celebrated of the Sassanid Emperors.

During the Warlord Era in the early twentieth century, Liaoning was under the Fengtian Clique, including Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang ; in 1931, Japan invaded and the area came under the rule of the Japanese-controlled puppet state of Manchukuo.

His father, Prince Asahiko, was a son of Prince Fushimi Kuniie ( Fushimi no miya Kuniie Shinnō ), the twentieth head of the Fushimi-no-miya, the oldest of the sesshu shinnōke or cadet branches of the imperial dynasty from whom an emperor might be chosen in default of a direct heir.

The resulting work, Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing ( 1963 ), linking the loss of Kennedy with Howells ' loss of his son, is described by Howells ' pupil Paul Spicer as " a classic of twentieth century choral music " and " an undoubted masterpiece ".

The son of Jewish middle class parents, he became the leader of the Mensheviks in early twentieth century Russia.

Set mainly in the first half of the twentieth century in the years leading to the Irish Easter Rising, it tells the stories of the Irish revolutionary Conor Larkin's family, his brothers Liam and Dary, and Liam's son Rory.

The bongos came to western Cuba at the turn of the twentieth century, when the son migrated to the capital city of Havana.

He was succeeded by his son, the twentieth Earl.

His eldest son, the twentieth Earl, was a bomb disposal expert.

Tar-Ardamin's son, Ar-Adûnakhôr, is generally counted as the twentieth ruler.

He was the son of George Beresford Plumptre, younger brother of the twentieth Baron.

She was succeeded by her son, the twentieth Baron.

She was succeeded by her son, the twentieth Lord, and on his death in 1919 the title passed to his sister Ethel Eveleen Campbell, wife of Henry Tufnell Campbell, who both assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Gray the following year.

His son, the nineteenth Lord, and grandson, the twentieth Lord, were also Scottish Representative Peers, between 1890 and 1933 and 1935 and 1963, respectively.

His son, the twentieth Lord, was a Scottish Representative Peer between 1906 and 1910.

An embarrassment of profits at the turn of the twentieth century prompted the company to move into the car business to avoid attracting too much attention from the French government, according to the chairman's son, also Alfred Koerner, speaking in the early 1980s.

He would be seen again in issue # 231, the magazine's twentieth anniversary, here a grown man with a son new to Nintendo.

He later became tutor to Sir William Trumbull's son at Easthampstead Park in Berkshire and is now best known as the assistant of his neighbour, Alexander Pope, in his translation of the Odyssey, of which he ' Englished ' the first, fourth, nineteenth, and twentieth books, catching the manner of his master so completely that it is hardly possible to distinguish between their work ; while thus engaged he published ( 1723 ) a successful tragedy, Marianne.

And he had a son, by name Sir Roger, who succeeded by inheritance to those manors, lands, and tenements, after the death of the said Sir Stephen his father, as in fact appears by the letters patent of the Lord Henry, late King of England, son of King John, the date whereof is 8 January, in the forty-first year of his reign, by which the said late King granted, that those tenements in Shepeye and Upcherche ( contained in the said letters patent ), which are now called North-wode Scepeye, which were formerly held of the said late King, as of his manor of Myddelton, 3 in Gavelkind, should henceforth be held, by the said Sir Roger, of the said late King and his heirs, by service of the twentieth part of one knight's-fee, and by certain services also annually to be rendered.

That same year, as Ealdred was returning to England he met Sweyn, a son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and probably absolved Sweyn for having abducted the abbess of Leominster Abbey in 1046.

Journeying with him was Tostig, another son of Earl Godwin, who was now earl of Northumbria.

* Alphonso, Earl of Chester, first son of Edward I of England, who died at the age of ten.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

* Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington ( b. 1978 ), son and heir of previous

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

The estate is recorded in 1451 as " Bouchmorale ", and was later tenanted by Alexander Gordon, second son of the 1st Earl of Huntly.

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.

On his death, the title passed to his son Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee ( 1927 – 91 ).

According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen ( burial chamber ) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century.

As the eldest living son of the sovereign, Charles automatically gained several titles ( including Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay ), and subsequently was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in November 1616.

The Duke's eldest son's eldest son in turn can use the courtesy title Earl of Sunderland.

: Lord Blandford's heir apparent: George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland ( b. 1992 ), his elder son

* 1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, second son of Richard, Duke of York ( murdered after battle ) ( b. 1443 )

A bitter rivalry between the Earl of Essex and Robert Cecil, son of Lord Burghley, and their respective adherents, for the most powerful positions in the state marred politics.

Oxford was the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding.

He was born on 12 April 1550 at the de Vere ancestral home, Castle Hedingham, the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his second wife, Margery Golding.

On 14 April 1589 Oxford was among the peers who found Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, the eldest son and heir of Oxford's cousin, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, guilty of treason.

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 ".

After the death of Oxford's widow, Elizabeth, their son, Henry, the 18th Earl of Oxford, inherited the remainder of his father's estate.

He was succeeded by his only surviving son, the second Earl.

On his death the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage, the third Earl.

The third earl was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Earl, who was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo.