Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

Luther for his part did not stop at the suggestion, but in order to facilitate the change made special efforts to spread his teaching among the Prussians, while Albert's brother, Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach, laid the scheme before their uncle, Sigismund I the Old of Poland.

Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.

In 1871, she married James George Skelton Anderson ( d. 1907 ) of the Orient Steamship Company co-owned by his uncle Arthur Anderson, but she did not give up her medical practice.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury (" J. Frederick George "), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.

" In 1994, Stephenson joined with his uncle, J. Frederick George, to publish a political thriller, Interface, under the pen name " Stephen Bury "; they followed this in 1996 with The Cobweb.

Lardner was a grand uncle to 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner George Lardner, Jr., a journalist at The Washington Post since 1963.

The new settlement was named Frederick's Town in honour of Prince Frederick, son of King George III and uncle of Queen Victoria.

He was an active recruiter for the sect's Isis-Urania temple, and brought in his uncle George Pollexfen, Maud Gonne, and Florence Farr.

Mary Boole claimed profound influence ( via her uncle George Everest ) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as Augustus De Morgan and Charles Babbage:

Her godparents were: the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle, for whom his brother the Prince George stood proxy ); Princess Ingrid of Sweden ( her paternal cousin, for whom another cousin Lady Patricia Ramsay stood proxy ); the Princess Victoria ( her paternal great-aunt ); the Lady Rose Leveson-Gower ( her maternal aunt ); and the Hon David Bowes-Lyon ( her maternal uncle ).

George V died when Margaret was five, and her uncle succeeded as King Edward VIII.

" When Margaret was twelve in 1942 her uncle and godfather, Prince George, was killed in an air crash.

Although the school had already selected its semester quota, Kelly obtained an interview with the school's admission officer, Emile Diestel, and was admitted due to her uncle George.

As a young man destined to serve in the navy, Prince George served for many years under the command of his uncle, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, who was stationed in Malta.

By 1675 George's eldest uncle had died without issue, but his remaining two uncles had married, putting George's inheritance in jeopardy as his uncles ' estates might pass to their own sons, should they have had any, instead of to George.

George's surviving uncle, George William of Celle, had married his mistress in order to legitimise his only daughter, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, but looked unlikely to have any further children.

Under Salic law, where inheritance of territory was restricted to the male line, the succession of George and his brothers to the territories of their father and uncle now seemed secure.

Latimer was her father's second cousin, a twice-widowed descendant of George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer, Warwick, the ' Kingmaker's ', ' idiot uncle '.

* Lauder College ( named after his uncle who encouraged him to get an education ) in the Halbeth area of Dunfermline was renamed Carnegie College in 2007.

Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.

Her brother, Marx's uncle Benjamin Philips ( 1830-1900 ), was a wealthy banker and industrialist, upon whom Karl and Jenny Marx would later often come to rely for loans while they were exiled in London.

This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.

President Obama mentioned during his visit that he had heard stories as a child from his great uncle, whom was part of the U. S. 89th Infantry Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp of Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps.

The witness whom Essex expected to confirm this allegation, his uncle William Knollys, was called and admitted there had once been read in Cecil's presence a book treating such matters ( possibly either The book of succession supposedly by an otherwise unknown R. Doleman but probably really by Robert Persons or A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England explicitly mentioned to be by Parsons, in which a Catholic successor friendly to Spain was favored ).

His many books that followed were essentially variations on Ragged Dick and featured a cast of stock characters: the valiant hard-working, honest youth ( who knew more Latin than the villain ), the noble, mysterious stranger ( whom the poor boy rescued and by whom he got rewarded ), the snobbish youth ( cousin ), and the evil squire ( uncle ).

She found herself particularly attracted to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, whom even his uncle, the cleric and poet Gavin Douglas, called a " young witless fool.

Determined to rule on his own, Michael V came into conflict with his uncle John the Orphanotrophos, whom he almost immediately banished to a monastery.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle ( for whom she was named ), Charlie Oakley ( Joseph Cotten ), her mother's younger brother, is arriving for a visit.

During the test, she gives birth to a " sturdy boy with thick yellow hair " whom Math names Dylan and who takes on the nature of the seas until his death at his uncle Gofannon's hands.

During the test, she gives birth to a " sturdy boy with thick yellow hair " whom Math names Dylan and who takes on the nature of the seas until his death at his uncle Gofannon's hands.

She has an uncle named Maximillian, whom she refers to as " Uncle Max ".

He also had a sister called Megatime but very little is known about her: she married a Cyrenaean man called Stasenorus or Stasenor to whom she bore a son, Callimachus ( so called " the Younger " as to distinguish him from his maternal uncle ), who also became a poet, author of " The Island ".

His mother whom he recalls singing folk songs during his childhood was in fact the daughter of a well-to-do family of sea captains and his uncle was a composer and performer of popular music.

The seaside town had become fashionable through the residence of George's uncle, the Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland, whose tastes for cuisine, gaming, the theatre and fast living the young prince shared, and with whom he lodged in Brighton at Grove House.

An uncle was an alchemist and devil-worshiper, and her brother was a reprobate around whom no woman or female child was considered safe.

Henry III had granted the land to the queen's uncle, Peter, Count of Savoy, whom he designated Earl of Richmond and gave all the land from the Strand to the Thames, in 1246.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

Two of the most significant of these are the Yad Ramah by Rabbi Meir Abulafia ( uncle of the mystic Abraham Abulafia ) and Bet Habechirah by Rabbi Menahem haMeiri, commonly referred to as " Meiri ".

In 1739, at the age of twenty, he accepted an offer to go to Lisbon as an assistant to Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny who was mutually referred to as his " uncle ", but was in fact a more distant relative.

Chester Goode was known to be one of many brothers raised by an aunt and uncle, and he mentions his mother on one occasion ; he referred to past service in the cavalry, and years as a cattle driver in Texas.

Often referred to as Quentin II or Miss Quentin by readers to distinguish her from her uncle, for whom she was named.

Generally, the spirit of the bear was referred to as friend, brother, uncle, or forestcousin, or ways were thought up that would bypass the need to refer to the spirit at all, even indirectly.

In 1607, upon recommendation by his brother-in-law Zierotin and another relative Adam of Waldstein, often mistakenly referred to as his uncle, Wallenstein was made chamberlain at the court of Matthias, and later also chamberlain of archdukes Ferdinand and Maximilian.

Among the consequences of Baldwin's homosexuality was a rift with the novelist Rudyard Kipling, ( who was Stanley Baldwin's first cousin, and was sometimes referred to as Oliver's uncle ).

The Chef is referred to by name in one episode, in which Danny Kaye plays his uncle.

He was affectionately referred to as " Lo zio " (" the uncle ") because of the impressive moustache he wore even as a youngster.

He also reveals that he is a hitherto unknown uncle of Timothy ( whose parents had referred to " the one we don't mention ").

He was the uncle of Hayley Vaughn ( Kelly Ripa ); for years, Hayley lovingly called him " Uncle Porkchop ," while he affectionately referred to her as " Tinkerbell.

It is not always easy to distinguish the uncle from the nephew in later years ; the latter is sometimes referred to as Tonson junior.

He told authorities that Majid Khan, a Baltimore youth who worked at his father's gas station, had referred to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as an " uncle " and spoken of a desire to kill Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf.

The dish referred to as Murtabak is a multi layered pancake that originated in the state of Kerela where the people referred to disparagingly as " mamak's " ( or uncle ) hail from.

", for instance referred to Stewart's maternal uncle, whilst Stewart's first cousin was the notable poet James Farrar.

To explain his father, he must explain a habit of his uncle's ( referred to as " My Uncle Toby "), and that requires knowing what his uncle did during the War of the Spanish Succession at the Battle of Namur.

When the doctor killed his uncle, Rupert believed himself cursed and shot himself and referred to the leprosy in his suicide note which everyone took as being metaphorical, not a reality.

Maharajah Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma is known to have referred to Ravi Varman Thampi as Thampi maman ( uncle Thampi ).

She apparently had at least one other sibling, as Elgar referred to Havoc as his uncle.