Tennant's maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were staunch Protestants from Derry in Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, and were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912 ; William was a member of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland.

The Hulk was a popular character – Rampage Weekly which starred The Defenders had been added to Marvel's list of publications under Tennant's editorship as a second vehicle for the green giant – and now with his own TV series Skinn saw the Hulk as the lead feature of another adventure style comic.

In 2007, Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared with Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat and entitled " Time Crash ".

Tennant's cartoons regularly appear in the For Dummies book series, and has appeared in PC Magazine and Computerworld, a magazine for which he worked from 1987 to 1999.

His auction record of £ 9, 000, paid for his 91cm square oil on canvas " The Family ( Kiss )" was set at Tennant's auction house in Leyburn on 4 March, 2009.

Michelle Duncan and Jamie Sives were unable to attend the readthrough for this story, and their parts were read by David Tennant's parents, who happened to be visiting the Doctor Who set.

Tennant's factory at St Rollox, North Glasgow, became the largest chemical plant in the world.

There Albert found work as a mechanic at a garage and Beulah decided she wanted to work as well, eventually becoming a bookkeeper at Tennant's Model laundry.

Tennant's brother, meanwhile, had failed in business, and the poet became in 1812 schoolmaster of the parish of Dunino, near St Andrews.

On his father's death, Tennant's mother married Lord Grey, a fellow bird-lover.

Tennant's eldest brother was Edward – " Bim " – who was killed in the First World War.

They sold the lease to what would become Tennant's richest post war mine, Noble's Nob, before they realised its potential.

Two of Tennant's novels, Battlers and Ride on Stranger, set in the 1930s have been made into television mini-series.

At that time they knew Lucian Freud, Donald Maclean and Robert Kee, Henrietta Moraes and others from David Tennant's Gargoyle Club in Soho.

In the British crime TV series Blackpool ( TV serial ) David Tennant's character, a police inspector investigating a murder, pretends to be a Quantity Surveyor to make advances on the wife of a suspect.

Tennant's talent at this young age was spotted by actress Edith MacArthur ; after seeing his first role at age 11, she told his parents he would become a successful stage actor.

Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui costarring Ashley Jensen, one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop 7: 84 Theatre Company.

Coincidentally, Eccleston portrayed the incarnation of The Doctor immediately preceding Tennant's.

In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the " coolest character " on UK television in a Radio Times survey.

* Tennant's character Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood reappears in UNIT: The Wasting.

The character cameos in David Tennant's final story, The End of Time when the dying Tenth Doctor travels to the Powell estate on New Years Day 2005 to bid farewell to Rose one last time.

David Tennant's portion of the regeneration scene was actually filmed much later than Eccleston's, and without the presence of Billie Piper.

Tennant's segment was recorded with him speaking to a piece of sticky tape indicating Piper's eyeline and then edited into the broadcast version.

Tennant's business appointments include Chairman of Grampian Television from 1968 to 1989 ( he was Vice-Chaiman from 1960 to 1968 ), Director of Caledonian Associated Cinemas from 1950 to 1990 ; Director of Clydesdale Bank from 1969 to 1989 ; Director of Abbey National Building Society ; and Honorary Director with Seagram Co Ltd ; Chairman of Glenlivet and Glen Grant Distilleries Ltd ; and was Chairman of the Board of Gordonstoun School from 1957 to 1972.

Pre the Pet Shop Boys era, Neil Tennant's dismissive Smash Hits review from the actual release date of the double A side single Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody is featured.

He also directed David Tennant's last episodes of Doctor Who.

Tennant's wharf was again destroyed in 1898, when the dock was extended.

An unusual aspect of the Tennant's success was that tolls were maintained, although tonnage dropped.

His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

After this deed he fled to Talmai, the king of Geshur () ( see also or ), his maternal grandfather, and it was not until three years later that he was fully reinstated in his father's favour and finally returned to Jerusalem.

With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ), only child of the above Gnaeus Domitius and Aemilia Lepida, paternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero, maternal grandfather of Valeria Messalina ( third wife of the emperor Claudius )

Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.

Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.

Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton.

Paul's prescience helps him determine the identity of Jessica's father, the " maternal grandfather who cannot be named " — the Baron himself.

His maternal grandfather was Alberto de Acha, one of the three founders of Bacardi Rum.

However, his relatives were not major court officials ; documents show that El Cid's paternal grandfather, Lain, confirmed only five documents of Ferdinand I's, his maternal grandfather, Rodrigo Alvarez, certified only two of Sancho II's, and El Cid's own father confirmed only one.

Originally under the guardianship of his maternal grandfather Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, he displaced Imperial Prince Koretaka ( 惟喬親王 ) as Crown Prince.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

Because consorts of crown princes, younger sons, and emperors were generally Fujiwara women, the male heads of the Fujiwara house were often the father-in-law, brother-in-law, uncle, or maternal grandfather of the emperor.

His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry in northern Ireland and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry.

Germanicus was the grandson-in-law and great-nephew of the Emperor Augustus, nephew and adoptive son of the Emperor Tiberius, father of the Emperor Caligula, brother of the Emperor Claudius, and the maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.

Through Agrippina the Younger, Germanicus was maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.

His maternal grandfather was Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia.

Hawk's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard ( 1845 – 1916 ), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrial endeavors.