Meanwhile, Lord Blandford's brother, Lord Randolph Churchill, persuaded the lovers against an elopement.

Lord Blandford's first wife was Rebecca Mary Few Brown.

His literary executor, and for all intents and purposes his heir, was his private secretary, Lord Rowton.

Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.

Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, who detests Wimsey, and their devil-may-care heir, Viscount St. George ( Wimsey's nephew, who likes him ), also make appearances in the novels, as does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

Later, the Count of Foix became heir to the Lord of Caboet through marriage, and a dispute arose between the French Count and the Catalan bishop over Andorra.

Llywelyn's amendment to Welsh law favoring legitimate children in a Church sanctioned marriage mirrored the earlier efforts of the Lord Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth in designating Gruffydd ap Rhys II as his heir over those of his illegitimate eldest son Maelgwn ap Rhys.

Leicester's hope of an heir was fulfilled in 1581 when another Robert Dudley, styled Lord Denbigh, was born.

As the son of former Queen of Naboo and Republic Senator Padmé Amidala and her husband, Anakin Skywalker — a fallen Jedi also known as the Sith Lord Darth Vader — Luke is heir to a family deeply powerful in the Force.

According to Giuseppe Bertoleoni, Charles Albert also ( verbally ) sanctioned the use of the title " Prince " for the oldest male heir, and the titles " Lord of the Islands " ( Signore delle Isole ) and " Lady of the Sea " ( Signora del Mare ) for the younger children of the king.

Magnus ordered his kinsman Thurchetel, the Lord High Constable of Sweden as the guardian of his heir, the future king Birger of Sweden, who was about ten years old at father's death.

Álava ( in Spanish ) or Araba ( in Basque ), officially Araba / Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lord of Álava.

Many contemporary narratives describing his life and death refer to him as Lord Darnley, his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox, and it is by this appellation that he is now generally known.

According to this constitution, the heir to the monarchy would be Prince Ra ' ad ( born 1936 ), Lord Chamberlain of Jordan.

On 6 July 1551, he married Anna van Egmond en Buren, the wealthy heir to the lands of her father, and William gained the titles Lord of Egmond and Count of Buren.

( Stanley ’ s own son and heir, George Stanley, Lord Strange was married to Joan Le Strange whose mother was Jacquetta Woodville, the Queen ’ s sister ).

He had been predeceased by his eldest son and heir, George Stanley, Lord Strange by a matter of months and was succeeded as Earl by his grandson, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby.

The Earl Castle Stewart's heir uses the style Viscount Stewart in order to avoid confusion with the Lord Stewart, eldest son of the Viscount Castlereagh, eldest son of the Marquess of Londonderry.

In 1824 the Antrobus family acquired the estate and it remained in their hands until 1915 when, after the last heir was killed in France, Lord Antrobus sold the grounds –- including Stonehenge -– to private bidders.

* John Douglas, Lord Aberdour ( born 1952 ), son and heir of the 21st Earl of Morton

* John Douglas, Master of Aberdour ( born 1986 ), son and heir of the Lord Aberdour

* John Douglas-Hamilton, Master of Selkirk, Lord Daer ( born 1978 ), son and heir of 11th Earl of Selkirk

* David Douglas, Lord Reston ( born 1769 ), Adam Smith's heir

His heir was created Lord Brownlow in 1776, and Belton was owned by successive Lords Brownlow for the next 200 years.

Lord Byron's son and heir ( also named William ) eloped with Juliana Byron, the daughter of William's brother John Byron.

Lord Grimthorpe financed a £ 130, 000 renovation and rebuilding of the then dilapidated cathedral, which is most apparent in his generally poorly regarded Neo-Gothic rebuild of the west front ( 1880 – 1883 ).

) () Both meanings become apparent in Exodus 12: 23 when parsed as: the Lord will pass ( hover, guard ) over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer ( destroying angel is commanded to pass by the children of Israel ) to come in unto your houses to smite.

Her husband, Lord Darnley, had been murdered in apparent revenge for the assassination of Rizzio ( who was a favourite of Mary's ), upon which the Queen almost immediately married the chief suspect.

In an apparent effort to curry favor with the English, which were engaged in a re-conquest of Ireland at the time, Ní Mháille went to the Lord Deputy of Ireland and offered two hundred fighting men to serve English interests in Ireland and Scotland.

In apparent contrast to Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat is sometimes depicted as a male, most notably in the rite performed in " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ) in which the Black Goat is called the " Lord of the Woods ".

The heir apparent is his only son ( Francis ) Richard ' Dick ' Charteris, Lord Elcho ( b. 1984 ), a lawyer.

During his tenure on the show, Alan hit a child genius, unknowingly took cocaine, bribed rent boys, lost his wife's car in a bet, was openly homophobic, forced the resignation of a junior government minister and, in the series finale, his guest Lord Morgan of Glossop died of an apparent heart attack.

However, the apparent entry of the popular Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alfie Byrne, into the presidential race ( in fact he eventually failed to get nominated ) and the belief that neither O ' Kelly nor any other politician could beat Byrne ( ironically a close friend of O ' Kelly ) led to all party agreement, on the opposition Fine Gael's suggestion, that the office go to Douglas Hyde, a Protestant Irish man, as a thank you for his contribution to Irish society.

The courtesy title of the heir apparent is Lord Stanley.

His eldest son and heir apparent George Stanley, Lord Stanley ( commonly called Lord Strange ), married Joan Strange, 9th Baroness Strange and 5th Baroness Mohun, and was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Strange in right of his wife.

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Edward John Robin Stanley, Lord Stanley ( b. 1998 ).

He preached that Lord Shiva ( Hara ) and Lord Vishnu ( Hari ) were one and that the apparent differences in names were made up and were untrue.

The heir apparent is the seventh Earl's son George Charles Bingham, Lord Bingham ( b. 1967 )

The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son Edward Melchior Pakenham, Lord Silchester ( b. 1970 )

*** His heir apparent: James Hamilton, Viscount Strabane ( b. 2005 ), elder son of Lord Hamilton

The Earls of Oxford held no subsidiary titles, and so their heirs apparent were styled by invented courtesy titles: initially Lord Vere, and later Viscount Bolebec ( sometimes spelled Viscount Bulbeck ).

The heir apparent is Lord Selkirk's eldest son, John Andrew Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Daer ( b. 1978 ).

The heir apparent to the Earldom of Lanark ( before that title merged with the Dukedom ) was styled " Lord Polmont ".

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Charles Fulke Chester Greville, Lord Brooke ( b. 1982 )