George's father was William Anson of Shugborough in Staffordshire and his mother was Isabella Carrier, who was the sister-in-law of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, the Lord Chancellor, a relationship that proved very useful to the future admiral.

* The Lord King, Lord Chancellor, at the trial of The Earl of Macclesfield, 1725

* Lord Thomas of Macclesfield

Here he gave some attention to literature and the classics as well as to law, but in the latter he made such progress that his employer, Salkeld, impressed by Yorke's powers, entered him at the Middle Temple in November 1708, and soon afterwards recommended him to Lord Chief Justice Parker ( afterwards earl of Macclesfield ) as law tutor to his sons.

In 1715 he was called to the bar, where his progress was, says Lord Campbell, more rapid than that of any other debutant in the annals of our profession, his advancement being greatly furthered by the patronage of Macclesfield, who became lord chancellor in 1718, when Yorke transferred his practice from the king's bench to the court of chancery, though he continued to go on the western circuit.

Parker had already been created Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1716.

In 1725 Lord Macclesfield was convicted of corruption and forced to pay a £ 30, 000 fine.

Lord Macclesfield was Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1954 to 1963. the titles are held by his grandson, the ninth Earl, who succeeded his father in 1992.

Under Macclesfield, the Circle reached its " zenith ", with members such as Lord Willoughby and Birch serving as Vice-President and Secretary, respectively.

In 1751, seconded by Lord Macclesfield, president of the Royal Society, and James Bradley, the eminent mathematician, he distinguished himself greatly in the debates on the calendar, and succeeded in making the new style a fact: the Act of Parliament is sometimes known as Chesterfield's Act.

Lord Haddington married Lady Maria Parker, heir of George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield, in 1802.

It was founded in 1502 by Sir John Percyvale, a former Lord Mayor of London, as Macclesfield Grammar School.

From such sources it appears that the duke of Monmouth himself, and statesmen like Halifax, Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Macclesfield, Cavendish, Bedford, Grey of Warke, were among those who fraternized at the King's Head Tavern with third-rate writers such as Scroop, Mulgrave and Shadwell ; with remnants of the Cromwellian régime like Lord Falconbridge, John Claypole and Henry Ireton ( two sons-in-law and a grandson of the old Protector ); with such profligates as Lord Howard of Escrick and Sir Henry Blount ; and with scoundrels of the type of Dangerfield and Oates.

It is said that when the King came hunting in Macclesfield Forest, a Downes would hold the King's stirrup, whilst he mounted and Lord Stanley would hold that of Downes.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

No matter how devoted a man was, no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord, he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual.

It was Dickson who suggested to Lord Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United States.

Britain's plans to press Russia for a definite cease-fire timetable was announced in London by Foreign Secretary Lord Home.

As I ministered to his needs, I noticed that his face was radiant in spite of his suffering and I learned that he was trusting not only in the skill of his doctor and nurse but also the Lord.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

`` We beseech thee, Lord Gord, to bless this food '' -- that was Victoria saying grace while the baby sprayed raisin toast on her plastic bib.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Brothers.

Joshua, however, was admitted with his leader to the very presence of the Lord, while Aaron and Hur remained below to look after the people ( Exodus 24: 9-14 ).

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

The principal character is Edmund, Lord Blackadder, the great-grandson of the original Black Adder.

Richard's great-grandson was Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector.

His great-grandson, Samuel Wright of Gunthorpe, married a daughter of Lord Coventry.

The first creation was on 6 March 1351, for Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of Lancaster, a great-grandson of Henry III ; he was also 4th Earl of Leicester, 1st Earl of Derby, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Lord of Bowland.

* Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne ( 1920 – 1988 ), great-grandson of Lord Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton, second son of the 4th Duke.

His great-grandson, the fourth Earl, was a prominent statesman and served as First Lord of the Admiralty and as Secretary of State for the Northern Department.

When Lord St. Andrews succeeds, the dukedom will cease to be a Royal dukedom ; as a great-grandson of a sovereign he will be styled His Grace The Duke of Kent.

Through his father, General Lord Charles FitzRoy, Robert was a fourth great-grandson of Charles II of England and his grandfather was Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.

No Duke has had a great-grandson in direct line to the titles, but it is likely that such an heir would be styled " Lord Abernethy " ( the Lordship of Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest being the most senior available title ).

He is a great-grandson of Lord William Hervey, CB ( 1805-1844 ), a younger son of the 1st Marquess.

This nobleman was a great-grandson of the 2nd Lord Herbert of Cherbury of the first creation, and since his time the barony has been held by the Earls of Powis.

He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne ( d. 1585 ), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married.

# Francis Anthony Russell ( b. 1948 ), great-grandson of Lord Arthur John Edward Russell, younger brother of the 9th Duke and second son of Maj .- Gen. Lord Sir George William Russell, second son of the 6th Duke

* Patrick Graham, 1st Lord Graham ( d. c. 1466 ), was a great-grandson of Robert III

This did not happen because Fergus, his sons, grandsons and great-grandson Alan, Lord of Galloway shifted their allegiance between Scottish and English kings.

* Lord Wonbeom, the 3rd Son of Prince Jeongye ( great-grandson of King Yeongjo ) ( 1725 – 1776 ).

Lord Wharncliffe ( great-grandson ), ed.

He was the great-grandson of Lord Henry Paulet, third son of the fourth Marquess.

He was the great-grandson of the Reverend Lord Charles Paulet, second son of the thirteenth Marquess.

Lord Cobham died childless and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his cousin, the fifth Baronet, the great-grandson of Sir John Temple, second son of the first Baronet.

He was the great-grandson of Lord Charles Pelham-Clinton, second son of the fourth Duke.

His great-grandson, the eighth Earl ( the son of Montagu Charles Francis Towneley-Bertie, Lord Norreys, who had assumed by Royal license his maternal grandfather's surname of Towneley in 1896 ), succeeded his distant relative ( his fifth cousin thrice removed ) the twelfth Earl of Lindsey in the earldom of Lindsey in 1938.

A member of the famous Howard family, he was the great-grandson of Lord William Howard, third son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

He was the great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles John Tottenham, DL, JP, eldest son of the Right Reverend Lord Robert Tottenham ( who had not assumed the surname Loftus ), second son of the first Marquess.