Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.

Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

His first desire was to create a mother and son alone in the universe.

her son was dead.

But at the end of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the quick, free drawings, with the mother roughed in, holding her son, the model grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to speak to his friends.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

Carpenters all wanted steady work and at the moment every mother's son for twenty miles around that could hammer nails for twenty-five dollars a day was working on the school job.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

The son of a career naval officer, Donaldson spent his early childhood in different seaport cities in the eastern United States and in Germany.

They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boatbuilder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine.

His father, William, was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son.

He was the illegitimate ( or natural ) son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer ( and privateer ) from the south of Brittany, and his mistress Jeanne Rabine, a 27

He bigamously married Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, in 1113, but was convinced to divorce her as well in 1117 ; Adelaide's son from her first marriage, Roger II of Sicily, never forgave Jerusalem, and for decades withheld much-needed Sicilian naval support.

Unlike some of his predecessors the new Spartan general, Lysander, was not a member of the Spartan royal families and was also formidable in naval strategy ; he was an artful diplomat, who had even cultivated good personal relationships with the Persian prince Cyrus, the son of Darius II.

Utzon was born in Copenhagen, the son of a naval engineer, and grew up in Aalborg, Denmark, where he became interested in ships and a possible naval career.

His son, Vice Admiral Lloyd Mustin ,( 1911 – 1999 ), a 1932 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, took part in developing the Navy's first lead-computing anti-aircraft gun sight, which proved of major importance in the air-sea actions of World War II, and served on the cruiser during the naval battle of Guadalcanal.

One of the squadrons was led by his cousin, Estêvão da Gama ( the son of Aires da Gama ), and two of his maternal uncles, Vicente Sodré and Brás Sodré, were pre-designated to command an Indian Ocean naval patrol.

His second son, Estêvão da Gama was simultaneously appointed Capitão-mor do Mar da Índia (' Captain-major of the Indian Sea ', commander of the Indian Ocean naval patrol fleet ), to replace Duarte's brother, Luís de Menezes.

His third son Sir William Peel was a naval commander and recipient of the Victoria Cross.

Meanwhile, Richard III made plans to marry her to an unimportant naval officer, a son of Robert Stillington.

Located in a house with garden which once belonged to the son and later the grandson of author Jules Verne, the museum contains a small but interesting collection of art objects, many donated by naval officers from the time of the French colonization of Southeast Asia.

* September 3 – Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompeius, a son of Pompeius, in a naval engagement off Naulochus.

Born in Brill, Tromp was the first son of Harpert Maertensz, a naval officer who became captain of the Olifantstromp, from the name of which ship probably the family name " Tromp " is derived, first appearing in documents in 1607.

The son of a naval officer, Ainsworth was educated at the Ludgrove School in Wokingham, Bradfield College, and Lincoln College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1979, with an MA in English Literature and Language.

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, second son of the second Earl, was a prominent naval commander.

Augustus Clifford, illegitimate son by the fifth Duke and his mistress and later second wife Elizabeth Hervey, was a naval commander and was created a baronet in 1838 ( see Clifford baronets ).

In the earlier times it was the god Portunes or Fortunus who was thanked for naval victories, but Neptune supplanted him in this role by at least the first century BC when Sextus Pompeius called himself " son of Neptune.

His elder son Ryoichi, who became a naval lieutenant, was killed in action during the Second World War.

He was the third son and seventh child of John Henry Parnell ( 1811 – 1859 ), wealthy Anglo-Irish landowner, and his American wife Delia Tudor Stewart ( 1816 – 1898 ) of Bordentown, New Jersey, daughter of the American naval hero, Admiral Charles Stewart ( 1778-1869 ) ( the stepson of one of George Washington's bodyguards ).

Isaac Guillory was of Jewish heritage and born at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, the son of an American sailor and his Turkish wife.

He was the son of naval officer Louis Barthes, who was killed in a battle in the North Sea before his son was one year old.