The Bishop of Gloucester described the elder Thomas in 1577 as the richest recusant in his diocese, worth five hundred pounds a year in lands and goods.

Thomas the elder married twice, had seventeen children, and died in 1615.

Harold Holt was the elder of Thomas and Olive ( Williams ) Holt's two children.

* 1733 – Thomas Linley the elder English musician ( d. 1795 )

When he died the following year Boconnoc was inherited by William's elder brother, Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc.

William Walsingham served as a member of the commission that was appointed to investigate the estates of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1530, and his elder brother, Sir Edmund Walsingham, was the lieutenant of the Tower of London.

His elder son, Sir Thomas Cecil, who inherited the Barony of Burghley on his death, was later created Earl of Exeter.

Burghley's descendants include the Marquesses of Exeter, descended from his elder son Thomas ; and the Marquesses of Salisbury, descended from his younger son Robert.

* Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet ( 1804 – 1889 ), MP, elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone

Boniface and his elder brother Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy, were sons of Thomas I, Count of Savoy, and Margaret of Geneva.

However, it so happened that Philip I, the last surviving brother of Thomas, made Thomas ' younger son Amadeus his heir in Savoy, leaving the elder son, Thomas, and the genealogically senior line descending from him out of the Savoy succession.

Besides Peter, there was another possible claimant, the fifteen-year-old Thomas III of Piedmont ( 1248 – 82 ), the eldest son of Peter's elder brother Thomas, Count of Flanders.

For his support of Richard III's claim to the throne, John Howard, the son of Thomas Mowbray's elder daughter Margaret, was created 1st Duke of Norfolk in 1483, in the title's third creation.

One of his elder brothers was the nationalist Thomas Addis Emmet, a close friend of Theobald Wolfe Tone, who was a frequent visitor to the house when Robert was a child.

He was the elder son of Thomas Cavendish ( d. 1524 ), who was a senior financial official, the " clerk of the pipe ", in the Court of Exchequer, and his wife, Alice Smith of Padbrook Hall.

This resulted in disaffection which led to a general revolt in 1653 known as The Coonan Cross Oath. Under the leadership of their elder Thomas, Nazranis around Cochin gathered at Mattancherry church on Friday, January 24, 1653 ( M. E.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

His father's elder brother, Sir Thomas Liddell, 6th Baronet ( 1775 – 1855 ), was raised to the Peerage as Baron Ravensworth in 1821.

His elder brother Thomas Healy ( 1854 – 1924 ) was a solicitor and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for North Wexford, his younger brother Maurice Healy ( 1859 – 1923 ) a solicitor and MP for Cork City, with whom he held a lifelong close relationship.

The collection included the Scottish style song " The Highland Laddie " which became popular and as late as 1775 was adapted by Thomas Linley the elder in The Duenna.

He also wrote a translated semi-opera version of Michel-Jean Sedaine's work Richard Coeur de lion with music by Thomas Linley the elder for the Drury Lane Theatre where it was very successful in 1788.

His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

By the time his son Abraham was born, Thomas owned two farms, several town lots, livestock, and horses.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

is the title of a novel by William Faulkner, and refers to the return of Thomas Sutpen's son.

He was the son of a schoolmaster, and a descendant of Thomas Fincke on his mother's side.

Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White.

The work of producing English-language books for use in the liturgy was largely that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury at first under the reign of Henry VIII, only more radically under his son Edward VI.

The second, began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia ( now West Virginia ), led by Thomas Campbell and his son, Alexander Campbell.

Thomas ' father chose the name Dylan, which could be translated as " son of the sea ", after Dylan ail Don, a character in The Mabinogion.

In May 1941, Thomas and Caitlin moved to London, leaving their son with his grandmother at Blashford in Hampshire.

He hoped to be appointed to the Custom House in Philadelphia with help from President Tyler's son Robert, an acquaintance of Poe's friend Frederick Thomas.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

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.

On 14 April 1589 Oxford was among the peers who found Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, the eldest son and heir of Oxford's cousin, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, guilty of treason.

Francis Hopkinson was born at Philadelphia in 1737, the son of Thomas Hopkinson and Mary Johnson.

Abbot was son or grandson ( it is not clear which ) of Sir Thomas Abbot of Easington, East Yorkshire and his mother ( or grandmother ) was of the ancient house of Pickering.

James Brine, James Hammett, George Loveless, George's brother James Loveless, George's brother in-law Thomas Standfield, and Thomas's son John Standfield were arrested, found guilty, and transported to Australia.

Major was born at the St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major and former Music Hall performer Tom Major-Ball ( né Abraham Thomas Ball ), who was 64 years old when John was born.

* 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England ( d. 1397 )

But relations between them did turn tense in the year 1617 when Sir Thomas Roe the Elizabethan diplomat warned the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince Shah Jahan, the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out of the province, " then he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas ".

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.