Theodore Roosevelt was distantly related by birth to the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( they were fifth cousins ), and he was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

His father died when he was just three years old, and he was adopted by his uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ).

His nephew Theodore had hinted to his uncle that it was time to get married.

Amongst them may be mentioned a history of the dispute with Palamas ; biographies of his uncle and early instructor John, metropolitan of Heraclea, and of the martyr Codratus of Antioch ; funeral orations for Theodore Metochites, and the two emperors Andronicus ; commentaries on the wanderings of Odysseus and on Synesius's treatise on dreams ; tracts ‘ on orthography and on words of doubtful meaning ; a philosophical dialogue called Phlorentius or Concerning Wisdom ; astronomical treatises on the date of Easter, on the preparation of the astrolabe and on the predictive calculation of solar eclipses ; and an extensive correspondence.

For example, in his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt described his uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, as " a veritable Colonel Newcome ".

After leaving Leipzig in 1888, Delius moved to Paris where his uncle, Theodore, took him under his wing and looked after him socially and financially.

* Robert Roosevelt ( 1829 – 1906 ), uncle of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt

On 1 April 1795 his father succeeded Ludwig's uncle, Charles II, as duke of Zweibrücken, and on 16 February 1799 became Elector of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Arch-Steward of the Empire, and Duke of Berg on the extinction of the Sulzbach line with the death of the elector Charles Theodore.

His uncle, Theodore, was a federal judge.

Theodore was the uncle of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen and great-great-grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr .. Rodney Frelinghuysen, who represents New Jersey's 11th congressional district, is a descendant.

* Theodore Levin, U. S. District Court Judge ( 1946 to 1970 ), father of Charles and Joseph Levin and uncle of Senator Carl Levin and Representative Sander Levin

* Theodore Roosevelt was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife

Western boat builders such as R. M. Munroe and Robert Barnwell Roosevelt ( Theodore Roosevelt's uncle ) reflected its influence.

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, uncle of American President Theodore Roosevelt, also built a proa at about the same time.

He was the brother of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., the uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt and the great-uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt.

When his uncle John I died in 1305, the male line of the Aleramici marquesses of Montferrat went extinct ; Theodore, his close kinsman, inherited Montferrat.

Theodore attributed the observances followed by his monks to his uncle, the saintly Abbot Plato, who first introduced them in his monastery of Saccudium.

Apart from his external and economic successes, Theodore Svetoslav dealt with the separatists among the nobility including his uncle.

A new claimant appeared in the person of the sebastokratōr Radoslav Voïsil or Vojsil, from Sredna Gora, a brother of the former emperor Smilets, who was defeated, and captured by Theodore Svetoslav's uncle, the despotēs Aldimir ( Eltimir ), at Krăn in about 1301.

In the following 1305 Theodore Svetoslav's uncle Aldimir appears to have entered into negotiations with the Byzantines, and Theodore Svetoslav annexed his uncle's lands.

When Theodore was a little over ten years old, his father proclaimed him a despot ( despotēs ) and appointed him to govern Morea after the death of his uncle Theodore I Palaiologos in 1407.

Frelinghuysen was graduated from Rutgers College in 1836, and studied law in Newark with his uncle, to whose practice he succeeded in 1839, after he was admitted to the bar.

In 1787 this company merged with the rival North West Company. Mackenzie's mother died when he was at the age of 10 and he and his father went to NYC to live with his uncle.

An important commission in terms of the client, were alterations to William Pitt the Younger's house at Holwood House in 1786, Soane had befriended William Pitt's uncle Thomas on his grand tour ; In ( 1787 ) Soane remodelled the interior of Fonthill Splendens ( later replaced by Fonthill Abbey ) for Thomas Beckford, adding a picture gallery lit by two domes and other work.

His uncle, Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), was also a U. S. Senator from Virginia.

He soon returned, however, to his native village, and followed for some time the profession of an advocate ; but in 1787 he succeeded his uncle Antoine David as printer to the parlement.

Andrianampoinimerina deposed his uncle, King Andrianjafy ( 1770 – 1787 ) of Imerina Avarandrano ( Northern Imerina ), one of four continually warring principalities that emerged upon the division of the historically unified Imerina kingdom by King Andriamasinavalona a century before.

The death of his children caused ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá immense grief – in particular the death of his son Husayn Effendi came at a difficult time following the death of his mother and uncle.

** Charles Darwin ( 1758 – 1778 ) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

In addition, having been close to him in their youth, she now showed excessive affection towards her uncle – whilst many historians today dismiss this as familial affection ( noting their early friendship, and his similarity to her father and grandfather ), many of Eleanor's adversaries mistook the generous displays of affection between uncle and niece for an incestuous affair.

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.

Uncle Karl – K .' s impetuous uncle from the country, formerly his guardian.

* Claudius – King of Denmark, and Hamlet's uncle.

Heinrich Abeken ( August 19, 1809, Osnabrück – August 8, 1872 ), German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken.

Geoffrey and his uncle William de Clinton were forced to come to terms with Beaumont ; this set-back, and the difficult years of the Anarchy ( 1135 – 54 ), delayed any further development of the castle.

His uncle Kęstutis took him prisoner and a civil war ( 1381 – 1384 ) ensued.

In 1741 – 42 Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.

* 37 – Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.

Brought to power by a palace conspiracy in 1623, he succeeded his uncle Mustafa I ( 1617 – 18, 1622 – 23 ).

Heaviside's uncle Sir Charles Wheatstone ( 1802 – 1875 ) was the original co-inventor of the telegraph in the mid 1830s, and was an internationally celebrated expert in telegraphy and electromagnetism.

Instead he resigned his right of primogeniture and from Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ) he purchased, according to the custom of the time, for 30, 000 scudi, a position of prelatial rank and devoted his wealth and leisure to the enlargement of the library bequeathed to him by his uncle.

Rudolf spent eight formative years, from age 11 to 19 ( 1563 – 1571 ), in Spain, at the court of his maternal uncle Phillip II.

* 335 – Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.

Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1770 – 1857 ), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the committal title and estates of his childless uncle, the last of the Ostermanns.

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

Grandfather Vincent had perhaps been named in turn after his own father's uncle, the successful sculptor Vincent van Gogh ( 1729 – 1802 ).

* September 25 – Battle of Stångebro: The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles.

* June 20 – 18-year-old Queen Victoria accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom on the death of her uncle William IV without legitimate heirs.

* June 11 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, lands at Lyme Regis with an invasion force brought from the Netherlands to challenge his uncle, James II, for the Crown of England.