However, his succession could not have been foreseen at the time, as Alfred had three living elder brothers.

His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington.

Al-Hakim disappeared one night while out on his evening ride – presumably assassinated, perhaps at the behest of his formidable elder sister Sitt al-Mulk.

He was survived by one son and one daughter, his elder son having died of tuberculosis at the age of 21.

The elder Cecils loudly voiced their outrage at the rumors, which probably worsened the situation.

At the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple the dedicatory prayer asks that God grant them the gift of tongues and at the end of the service Brigham Young speaks in tongues, another elder interprets it and then gives his own exhortation in tongues.

Her elder sister Agnes married King Philip II of France ( annulled in 1200 ) and her sister Gertrude ( killed in 1213 ) King Andrew II of Hungary, while the youngest Matilda ( Mechtild ) became abbess at the Benedictine Abbey of Kitzingen in Franconia, where Hedwig also received her education.

When the elder Adams became president, he appointed his son in 1797 as Minister to Prussia at Washington's urging.

The elder son, John ( 1751 – 1794 ), studied medicine and succeeded James Lind as Chief Physician at Haslar Hospital in 1783.

The interference of Innocent is courted, a certain primacy is accorded him, but at the same time he is not addressed as a supreme arbitrator ; assistance and sympathy are solicited from him as from an elder brother, and two other prelates of Italy are joint recipients with him of the appeal .”

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

Upon the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, Coke ( already ordained in the Church of England ) ordained Asbury a deacon, elder, and bishop each on three successive days.

The elder Domitia Lucilla had inherited a great fortune ( described at length in one of Pliny's letters ) from her maternal grandfather and her paternal grandfather by adoption.

Two of his five children, his eldest daughters, died from cancer ( breast cancer and lymphoma ), while his elder son, Gus, was killed when a Piper PA-18 ( Super Cub, registration G-AYPN ) crashed into a hillside at Ditcham Park Woods near Petersfield, Hampshire, on 28 August 1971.

Otto's elder brother, Henry, was on a crusade at the time, and so the choice fell to Otto.

The first to join him was his elder brother John, and soon more than 100 monks lived at his monastery.

The office of elder is another distinctive mark of Presbyterianism: these are specially ordained non-clergy called ruling elders and ministers of Word and Sacrament called teaching elders who take part in local pastoral care and decision making at all levels.

The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970.

Alexei's elder sisters Olga and Tatiana were twenty-two and twenty-one years old at the time of the murder.

The more regular members of the Inklings, many of them academics at the University, included J. R. R. " Tollers " Tolkien, C. S. " Jack " Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Tolkien's son Christopher, Lewis ' elder brother Warren or " Warnie ", Roger Lancelyn Green, Adam Fox, Hugo Dyson, R. A.

The elder Ryan had served with the U. S. Army's 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge.

The elder Nast's socialist political convictions put him at odds with the Bavarian government, and in 1846 he left Landau, enlisting first on a French man-of-war and subsequently on an American ship.

* Thoby Stephen, elder brother of novelist Virginia Woolf, died of typhoid fever in 1906 at age 26.

Upon the death of his elder brother Spytihněv in 915, Vratislaus became Bohemian duke at a time when his duchy had already distanced itself from the political and cultural influence of Great Moravia and fallen under East Frankish, especially Bavarian influence.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

Under the APG II definition some well-known members of Dipsacales are honeysuckle, elder, viburnum, and valerian.

His early career connects itself in some measure with the rise of his elder brother, Gian Giacomo Medici, from the position of a mere bravo to that of Marchese di Marignano.

It contained translations of certain words — for example Tyndale used " elder " rather than " priest " for the Greek " presbuteros "— and some footnotes which challenged Catholic doctrine.

In addition to that, some elder relatives might also give gold jewelry.

The elder Jaggard has seemed an odd choice to many commentators, given his problematical relationship with the Shakespeare canon: Jaggard issued the suspect collection The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599 and 1612, and in 1619 printed the so-called False Folio, ten pirated or spurious Shakespearean plays, some with false dates and title pages.

Wallis was named in honour of her father and her mother's elder sister, Bessie ( Mrs D. Buchanan Merryman ), and was called Bessie Wallis until at some time during her youth the name Bessie was dropped.

Hugh Despenser the elder had been captured at Bristol, and despite some attempts by Isabella to protect him, was promptly executed by his Lancastrian enemies – his body was hacked to pieces and fed to the local dogs.

Like the House of Battenberg in Europe, Mandela's family has since rehabilitated its dynastic status to some extent: Mandela was still in prison when his daughter Zenani was married to Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973, elder brother of King Mswati III of Swaziland.

During the late Archaic and Woodland Period, Indians in the region began to cultivate plants such as marsh elder, lambsquarters, pigweed, sunflowers and some native squash.

Japanese rule ended the practice by 1930, but some elder Taiwanese can recall the practice ( Yeh 2003 ).

Box elder bugs, cluster flies, ladybugs, and silverfish are noticed some of the most common insects to seek the warm indoors.

In some jurisdictions, such as the United States, it can overlap with the area that has come to be known as elder law that deals not only with estate planning but other issues that face the elderly, such as home care, long term care insurance or social security or disability benefits.

Charles's sister Isabella was married to King Edward II of England and was sent to France in 1325, with the official mission of negotiating peace with her brother ; unofficially, some chroniclers suggested that she was also evading Hugh Despenser the elder and Hugh the younger, her political enemies in England.

It is commonly agreed that Carloman and Charlemagne disliked each other, although the reasons behind this are unclear: some historians suggest that each brother considered himself rightfully to be the sole heir of their father – Charlemagne as the elder child, Carloman as the legitimate child ( Charlemagne is sometimes claimed to have been born a bastard in 742, a claim not always accepted ).

His elder brother was actor Pierre Renoir, while his younger brother Claude Renoir ( 1901-69 ) produced some of his films.

As he disagreed with some of the developments within the Confessing Church, he withdrew from the church leadership in 1939, but continued as an elder in his parish, in which capacity he gave legal advice to persecuted fellow Christians and helped Jews who had gone into hiding by providing them with food.

Zonaras, commenting on Canon 50, wrote, " Because there are some of the Bishops and clergy who depart from virture and play chess ( zatikron ) or dice or drink to excess, the Rule commands that such shall cease to do so or be excluded ; and if a Bishop or elder or deacon or subdeacon or reader or singer do not cease so to do, he shall be cast out: and if laymen be given to chess-playing and drunkenness, they shall be excluded.

In 471 an imperial conspiracy caused the death of Aspar and of his elder son Ardabur: it is possible that Patricius died on this occasion, although some sources report that he recovered from his wounds.

In some later Jewish writings, most notably those of the Hasidic masters, the theology of a " divine test " is rejected, and the sacrifice of Isaac is interpreted as a " punishment " for Abraham's earlier " mistreatment " of Ishmael, his elder son, whom he expelled from his household at the request of his wife, Sarah.

Thelonious Monk had some involvement there, but by the time that he and Powell met ( around 1942 ) the elder pianist / composer was able to introduce Powell to the circle of bebop musicians which was starting to form at Minton's Playhouse.

Care in using these forms is important because some agents have used their authority to steal the assets of vulnerable individuals such as the elderly ( see elder abuse ).

In 1922, after some risqué films and a series of off-screen scandals involving Hollywood stars, the studios enlisted Presbyterian elder Will H. Hays to rehabilitate Hollywood's image.

A friendship with Rousseau, which lasted in some measure to the end, may have been due in the first instance to the fact that Rousseau had been domestic tutor in the family of Condillac's elder brother, Jean Bonnot, known as Monsieur de Mably, at Lyon.

Suzy's parents and elder siblings also make appearances in some episodes, and another major adult character includes Lou Pickles, Drew and Stu's father and Tommy, Angelica, and Dil's grandfather ; an elderly widower who later remarries with an active woman named Lulu.