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Like his father and grandfather he is a lawyer and Conservative politician and was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2010.
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Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".
Like his father before him, Henry V was faced with waning power.
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Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one.
Like his father and brother, Harry was educated at independent schools, starting at Jane Mynors ' nursery school and the pre-preparatory Wetherby School, both in London.
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Like his father before him, Cade left his young family to fight for Australia in the Armed Forces in World War II.
Like his father, Downey pursued a career in music, recording in both pop and country styles.
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* Like Laertes, who received the famous list of maxims from his father Polonius, Robert Cecil received a similar list from his father Burghley — a list that E. K. Chambers suggested as Shakespeare's likely source.
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Like his father, he majored in chemistry.
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Like his father, Poseidon, he carried a trident.
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Like his father, he shrank from proposing the wholesale abolition of the rotten boroughs, advocating instead an increase in county representation.
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Like his grandfather before him, Otto III strongly aspired to be the successor of Charlemagne.
Like his grandfather King Alfred, Eadred left a written record of his will.
Like her grandfather, she experienced occasional bouts of clinical depression all through her life.
Like his brother, Ivan II was not as successful as his father or grandfather with regards to territorial expansion.
Like his father and grandfather, he has also been given an official sobriquet, The Brilliant Comrade.
Like his grandfather the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protestant, unlike his extended family who held to the old religion.
Like his grandfather, Roblin was a member of Manitoba's Conservative Party, which was renamed the Progressive Conservative Party in 1942.
Like Queen Victoria, Miguel would become known as the " grandfather of Europe ", but this was only after his death.
Like his grandfather and father before him, Yakamochi was a well-known politician, and by Enryaku rose to the position of, the highest bureaucratic position.
Like his father and grandfather, his education came at the hands of his father.
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Like his father and his grandfather he also founded a new city named after him, Ziela, but the location of the city is unknown.
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Like his uncle and grandfather a freemason, Zetland was the society's provincial Grand Master in the North and East Riding of Yorkshire from 1874 to 1923.
Like his father and grandfather ( the famous Miltiades ) Lacedaimonius was a general and served Athens, notably in the naval Battle of Sybota against the Corinthians in 433 BC.
Like his father and grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik published works based on the Mishneh Torah, often suggesting novel insights on the Talmud in the process.
Like his grandfather and uncle ( both at Yale ), Bush was a freshman walk-on to the baseball team at Rice University, but abandoned the game by his sophomore year.
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