The family home was in an area known as Spindle Hill, and his father, Joseph Alcox, traced his ancestry to colonial-era settlers in eastern Massachusetts.

It is said that Joseph became both a mentor and father figure for Ayckbourn until his untimely death in 1967, and he has consistently spoken highly of him.

He was a descendant of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, one of whose five sons was Joseph, the grandfather of Abba Mari, who, like his son Moses, the father of Abba Mari, was highly respected for both his rabbinical learning and his general erudition.

*" A father should never prefer one child above another ; the example of Joseph shows what evil results may follow therefrom ".

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

Although blood tests proved Chaplin was not the father of Barry's child, Barry's attorney, Joseph Scott, convinced the court that the tests were inadmissible as evidence, and Chaplin was ordered to support the child.

His father Reverend Joseph J. Doke left England and travelled to South Africa in 1882, where he met and married Agnes Biggs.

His father was Rufus King Bellamy ( 1816 – 1886 ), a Baptist minister and a descendant of Joseph Bellamy.

In 1833, Joseph Smith, Jr. introduced the new office of Patriarch, to which he ordained his father.

According to Jesuit scholar Joseph Fitzmyer, the book, " overwhelms the reader by the density and sublimity of the topic with which it deals, the gospel of the justification and salvation of Jew and Greek alike by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, revealing the uprightness and love of God the father.

He was the father of Joseph Hopkinson, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives and also became a federal judge.

After the death of Joseph II in 1790, Francis's father became Emperor.

But Joseph prospers, and when famine comes he brings his father and his brothers and their households, seventy persons in all, to Egypt, where Pharaoh assigns to them the land of Goshen.

His father, Joseph Kildall, was a captain of Norwegian heritage.

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

The day after that ( Tuesday ), Verdi's father took his newborn the three miles to Busseto, where the baby was recorded as Joseph Fortunin François ; the clerk wrote in French.

In 1877, his father, Joseph Wells, fractured his thigh.

His father, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Sr., was the district attorney of Orleans Parish from 1973 – 2003.

Although Brown was to be named after his father Joseph, his first and middle names were mistakenly reversed on his birth certificate.

Joseph even told his father about all of his half brothers ’ misdeeds.

Joseph with his father Jacob and brothers in Egypt

When their father came out to meet them, his sons told him that Joseph was still alive, that he was the governor over all of Egypt and that he wanted the house of Israel to move to Egypt.

Finally, Joseph ’ s father was brought out to meet the Pharaoh.

Because the Pharaoh had such a high regard for Joseph, practically making him his equal, it was an honor to meet his father.

Joseph swore to do as his father asked of him.

Arnulf was granted the Duchy of Carinthia, a Frankish vassal state and successor of the ancient Principality of Carantania, by his father Carloman, after Carloman had become reconciled with his own father Louis the German and was created King of Bavaria.

Basque through his father, Abbadie developed a particular interest about the Basque Language after meeting the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte in London.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

It was a good match since she was a sister of Louis XIII ( their father, Henry IV, had died during her childhood ).

The period between Henry's accession and the birth of Eleanor's youngest son was turbulent: Aquitaine, as was the norm, defied the authority of Henry as Eleanor's husband ; attempts to claim Toulouse, the rightful inheritance of Eleanor's grandmother and father, were made, ending in failure ; the news of Louis of France's widowhood and remarriage was followed by the marriage of Henry's son ( young Henry ) to Louis ' daughter Marguerite ; and, most climactically, the feud between the King and Thomas Becket, his Chancellor, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

His father, Louis Kissinger ( 1887 – 1982 ) was a schoolteacher.

Two awards are presented each year, one to a Houston Astro and one to a St. Louis Cardinal, each of whom exemplifies Kile's virtues of being " a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man.

* 1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.

( Her father, Charles Schweitzer, was the older brother of Albert Schweitzer's father, Louis Théophile.

Coat of Arms of Jadwiga's father Ludwik Węgierski ( Louis I of Hungary ) featuring Anjou-Sicily, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia

Jadwiga's father Louis had, in 1364 in Kraków, during festivities known as the Days of Kraków, also made an arrangement with his former father-in-law Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV to inter-marry their future children:

Richard backed Guy, his vassal from Poitou, while Philip supported Conrad, a cousin of his late father Louis VII.

He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor ( as Louis I ) with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.

Louis is generally compared unfavourably to his father, though the problems he faced were of a distinctly different sort.

Louis was born while his father Charlemagne was on campaign in Spain, at the Carolingian villa of Cassinogilum, according to Einhard and the anonymous chronicler called Astronomus ; the place is usually identified with Chasseneuil, near Poitiers.

Then Lothair finally set out with a large Lombard army, but Louis had promised his sons Louis the German and Pepin of Aquitaine greater shares of the inheritance, prompting them to shift loyalties in favour of their father.

Men like Rabanus Maurus, Louis ' younger half-brothers Drogo and Hugh, and Emma, Judith's sister and Louis the German's new wife, worked on the younger Louis to make peace with his father, for the sake of unity of the empire.

He was 9 years old when his grandfather died and his father ascended as Louis VIII.