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

He is regarded as one of the three main founders of microbiology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch.

In medieval Christianity, Noah's three sons were generally considered as the founders of the populations of the three known continents, Japheth / Europe, Shem / Asia, and Ham / Africa, although a rarer variation held that they represented the three classes of medieval society – the priests ( Shem ), the warriors ( Japheth ), and the peasants ( Ham ).

This was the way of the founders of thermodynamics in the first three quarters of the nineteenth century.

The new name is taken from the government-sponsored group the three founders had previously served on.

The other three founders of scholasticism were the 11th-century scholars Peter Abelard, Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury and Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury.

William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell were the three founders of the Pony Express and were already in the freighting business in the late 1850s with more than 4, 000 men, 3, 500 wagons and some 40, 000 oxen.

* Amoghavajra, 8th century Buddhist monk, translator of Vajrayana scripture, figure in the Tang court, remembered as one of the three founders of Chinese esoteric Buddhism.

* Daffy ( Mister Duck )-A Scottish traveller and one of the three original founders of the beach ; appears as a mental apparition in Richard's consciousness in the later parts of the novel after his suicide.

* Sal-American ; one of the three original founders of the beach, and the unofficial leader of the beach community.

* Bugs-South African ; Sal's boyfriend, one of the three original founders of the beach, and the community's head carpenter ; has a mutual dislike with Richard.

The three sons of Cercaphus, Lindus, Ialusus and Camirus, were founders and eponyms of the cities Lindos, Ialysos and Kameiros respectively.

The three founders of the original Ventura Software no longer worked on the product after November 1990.

The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member " brotherhood ".

( Some sources say Simon Barker and Nathan Parker were also founders, but the original plat record shows only the first three men ).

The three town founders plotted town lots on of Channel's homestead.

The three founders were Nicola Rosato, Giovanni Policelli, and Lorenzo Falcone, and it was incorporated as a borough in 1912.

Several founders, in view of their aim, require the members of their institute not only to profess the three Evangelical Counsels of chastity, poverty, obedience, but also to vow or promise stability or loyalty, and maybe certain disciplines, such as self-denial, fasting, silence.

The City Fathers gave their approval in 1823 and fifteen Directors were elected, comprising the three founders and twelve other luminaries, including Sir Walter Scott, Sir John Hay and Robert Dundas.

The three remaining founders are reported to collectively own around a 50 % interest in the group's general partnership.

The three founders of Visio Corporation left Aldus in 1990 to create the product that later became known as Microsoft Office Visio.

The development of painting on sporting themes in the early eighteenth century was centred on the Newmarket Racecourse and the three founders of the sporting school, John Wootton, James Seymour and Peter Tillemans, painted many scenes of the racecourse and its environs.

As poetess, princess, and priestess, she was a personality who, according to William W Hallo, " set standards in all three of her roles for many succeeding centuries "

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

He was also partners with William Goddard and Joseph Galloway the three of whom published the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British monarchy in the American colonies.

Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlane the Great was first performed in London in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when William Harborne sailed for Constantinople as agent of the Levant Company.

The 1890s were marred by infighting between the three principal successors to Gladstone, party leader William Harcourt, former Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, and Gladstone's personal secretary, John Morley.

The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

The trio were likened to the Greek chorus, and the three witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, as they would sit in the snug bar of the Rovers Return, passing judgement over family, neighbours and frequently each other.

* 1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.

In 1243 William of Modena created the Diocese of Pomesania and three others.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Over the next thirteen years, she bore Henry five sons and three daughters: William, Henry, Richard, Geoffrey, John, Matilda, Eleanor, and Joan.

; Forgotten Futures IV: The Carnacki Cylinders: Horror and the supernatural in Edwardian England, including the original text and illustrations for William Hope Hodgson's " Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder ", a worldbook with rules for magic and the Ab-natural, three adventures and two long outlines, a story-telling card game, etc.

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

Screenwriter William Goldman identified Schaffner in 1981 as being one of the three best directors ( then living ) at handling ' scope ' ( a gift for screen epics ) in films.

Lieutenant-General William Norrie ( GOC XXX Corps ) organised the position and started to construct three defended " boxes ".

In the railroad car the President rode with his secretary, John G. Nicolay, his assistant secretary, John Hay, the three members of his Cabinet who accompanied him, William Seward, John Usher and Montgomery Blair, several foreign officials and others.

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.

From 1713 to 1740, King Frederick William I, also known as the " Soldier King ", established a highly centralized, militarized state with a heavily rural population of about three million ( compared to the nine million in Austria ).

After Menzies ' retirement, the party had three leaders in six years -- Holt, Gorton and William McMahon.

William I's second son Richard was killed in a hunting accident in 1081, so William bequeathed his dominions to his three surviving sons in the following manner: