Gerry began to aid Freddy with her father, prodded, no doubt, by Joan's open contempt for Freddy and William's irritating competency.

Warren Giles, William's father and President of the National League from to, had awarded an MLB franchise to the city of Houston in 1960.

William's father was Robert Pitt ( 1680 – 1727 ), the eldest son of Governor Pitt, who served as a Tory Member of Parliament from 1705 to 1727.

In 1726 Governor Pitt died and the family estate at Boconnoc passed to William's father.

Robert, William's father, became Duke of Normandy on 6 August 1027, in succession to his elder brother Richard III, who had only succeeded to the title the previous year.

Earlier dukes had been illegitimate, and William's association with his father on ducal charters appears to indicate that William was considered Robert's most likely heir.

William's father died in 1815, which made his mother to send him to England in 1816 ( she remained in India ).

Eight days before William's birth, his father died from smallpox ; thus William was the Sovereign Prince of Orange from the moment of his birth.

William's father: Tom Harvey, was a jurat of Folkestone where he served the office of mayor in 1600.

Long ago, his late father wasted away the family money, along with William's inheritance.

William dominates at the tournament and he returns to visit his father, now blind and living alone in Cheapside, but is discovered by Adhemar, who alerts the authorities as to William's false identity.

With Jocelyn and William's father in attendance, William bellows his true name, delivering a crushing blow and knocking Adhemar to the ground, winning the tournament.

William's father, John Marshal, supported King Stephen when he took the throne in 1135, but in about 1139 he changed sides to back the Empress Matilda in the civil war of succession between her and Stephen which led to the collapse of England into " the Anarchy ".

The first group is clearly family burials, and it is reasonable that William's father, Christopher ( Kit ) Barbee and his wife, are buried here, as this was known as ' Barbee's Mountain ' and was their home.

John Jacob Astor IV inherited his father William's estate and continued to promote the town and their business interests in Florida.

His son, William E. Sherman, had worked in the lumber industry nearby on the Cass River for some time prior to 1852 and William's favorable report persuaded his father to visit in 1851 and afterwards purchased several tracts of land in addition to his initial purchase.

Cumberland's final years were lived out during the first years of the reign of his nephew, George III, who acceded to the throne on the death of William's father on 25 October 1760: Cumberland became a very influential advisor to the King and was instrumental in establishing the First Rockingham Ministry.

Their joint reign began in February 1689, when they were offered the throne by the Parliament of England, replacing James II & VII, Mary's father and William's uncle / father-in-law, who was " deemed to have fled " the country in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

William's family, his elder red-gold haired sister Ethel and brother Robert, placid mother and stern father, and never-ending supply of elderly aunts, cannot understand William.

William's father, Charles Blackstone, was a silk mercer from Cheapside, the son of a wealthy apothecary.

Owing to his father's pivotal role as a Founding Father and William's loyalty to Britain, the relationship between father and son was strained past the breaking point.

Franklin Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, was named in William's honor, rather than for his father, as was the borough of Franklin Lakes.

His father, John Gull, was a barge owner and wharfinger and was thirty-eight years old at the time of William's birth.

William's middle name, Withey, came from his godfather, Captain Withey, a friend and employer of his father and also a local barge owner.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

William's threat that under no conditions would he allow `` freedom-conscious '' slaves to mix with his own was not carried out, for the plantation continued in operation as before.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

After Ealdred's death, one of the restraints on William's treatment of the English was removed.

By 1073 there were only two Englishmen in episcopal sees, and by the time of William's death in 1089, there was only one, Wulfstan II of Worcester.

It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

The so-called Liturgy of Comprehension of 1689, which was the result, conceded two thirds of the Presbyterian demands of 1661 ; but when it came to Convocation the members, now more fearful of William's perceived agenda, did not even discuss it and its contents were, for a long time, not even accessible.

William's anxiety over them was probably what caused his first nervous breakdown.

An initial Jacobite rising under John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee ( Bonnie Dundee ) defeated William's forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, but Dundee was slain in the fighting, and the army was soon defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

To William's relief, Monmouth was defeated, captured and executed, but both he and Mary were dismayed by James's subsequent actions.

After the death of King William II of Sicily his cousin Tancred of Lecce had seized power and had been crowned early in 1190 as King Tancred I of Sicily, although the legal heir was William's aunt Constance, wife of the new Emperor Henry VI.

Tancred had imprisoned William's widow, Queen Joan, who was Richard's sister, and did not give her the money she had inherited in William's will.

Biko was born in King William's Town, in the present-day Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

He was banned by the apartheid regime in February 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time nor to speak in public, was restricted to the King William's Town magisterial district, and could not write publicly or speak with the media.

Stephen valued William's loyalty sufficiently to agree to exchange Sherborne Castle for his safe release — this was one of the few instances where Stephen was prepared to give up a castle to ransom one his men.