His family was wealthy and well established ; his father Euphorion was a member of the Eupatridae, the ancient nobility of Attica, though this might be a fiction that the ancients invented to account for the grandeur of his plays.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

Her father was " the sort of rebel destined to transform colonial America "; as clerk of the court, he was jailed for disobeying the local magistrate in defense of middle-class shopkeepers and artisans in conflict with wealthy landowners.

Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a " picturesque and solitary " castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.

His father, James Roosevelt, and his mother, Sara Ann Delano, were sixth cousins and both were from wealthy old New York families.

" McBride notes the " devastatingly painful climactic scene ", where the young social-climbing son, embarrassed when his wealthy new friends first meet his parents, passes his mother and father off as house servants.

He was born in September 129 AD ; his father, Aelius Nicon, was a wealthy patrician, an architect and builder, with eclectic interests including philosophy, mathematics, logic, astronomy, agriculture and literature.

In 148, when he was 19, his father died, leaving him independently wealthy.

His father was a wealthy planter who had served as an acting governor of the Province of South Carolina.

When Rousseau was 10, his father, an avid hunter, got into a legal quarrel with a wealthy landowner on whose lands he had been caught trespassing.

His father, Motilal Nehru ( 1861-1931 ), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.

Karl's father, Herschel Marx, was middle-class and relatively wealthy: the family owned a number of Moselle vineyards ; he converted from Judaism to the Protestant Christian denomination of Lutheranism prior to his son's birth, taking on the German forename of Heinrich over Herschel.

In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.

He took the wealthy town of Suessa Pometia, with the spoils of which he commenced the erection of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus which his father had vowed.

One plot element shared by the comic and the show is Lex Luthor's problematic relationship with his wealthy father, Lionel.

His father Niccolò was a merchant who traded with the Middle East, becoming wealthy and achieving great prestige.

During one of his stays in England, Michael's future father married Anna Dorothea Janasz ( Dora ), the daughter of a wealthy immigrant landholder from Poland.

The family had become quite wealthy by the time Trudeau was in his teens, as his father sold his prosperous gas station business to Imperial Oil.

The Suda is alone in claiming that Sappho was married to a " very wealthy man called Cercylas, who traded from Andros " and that he was Cleïs ' father.

According to most sources, her father, Ambroise-Franҫois, was a wealthy silk merchant.

He married Berthe Sadie Delmont, known as Toots, on 12 August 1936, and her father Joseph Delmont, a wealthy Johannesburg businessman, bought a salon for James.

Sergei Diaghilev was born to a wealthy and cultured family in Selischi ( Novgorod Governorate ), Russia ; his father, Pavel Pavlovich, was a cavalry colonel, but the family's money came mainly from vodka distilleries.

The plot concerns the troubles that Sir Francis Varney inflicts upon the Bannerworths, a formerly wealthy family driven to ruin by their recently deceased father.

' Rich ' was an epithet sometimes given to his wealthy merchant father.

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

A well-known legend attached to the site concerns a wealthy hunter, Childe, who became lost in a snow storm and supposedly died there despite disembowelling his horse and climbing into its body for protection.

The show concerned Phillip Drummond ( Conrad Bain ), a wealthy white widower in New York City who adopted two young black boys after their parents died.

Charges and counter-charges flew in the press, with the wealthy Camelford faction having the greater firepower until Vancouver, ailing from his long naval service, died.

Christopher Fox was a churchwarden and was relatively wealthy ; when he died in the late 1650s he was able to leave his son a substantial legacy.

* Miltiades the Elder ( died c. 524 BC ), wealthy Athenian, and step-uncle of Miltiades the Younger

Ninon eventually died at the age of ( at least ) 82, a very wealthy woman.

He married the daughter of a wealthy consular family, who died young, leaving him no children.

Though born into a wealthy slave-owning family, Jefferson had many financial problems, and died deeply in debt.

However in 1459 the last noble family died out and positions on the council fell to wealthy farmers, butchers and millers.

William was a successful, well-connected and wealthy London lawyer who died in 1534, and Joyce was the daughter of courtier Sir Edmund Denny and the sister of Sir Anthony Denny, who was the principal gentleman of King Henry VIII's privy chamber.

As Master of the Court of Wards, Burghley supervised the raising and education of wealthy, aristocratic boys whose fathers had died before they reached maturity.

In 1944, Nasser married Tahia Kazim, the 22-year old daughter of a wealthy Iranian father and an Egyptian mother, both of whom died when she was young.

When William II died on 2 August 1100, Robert was on his return journey from the Crusade and was about to marry a wealthy young bride to raise funds to buy back his duchy.

Following his move to Duisburg, Mercator never left the city and died there, a respected and wealthy citizen.

On 20 March 1934, aged 20, at the imperial city of Huế, Bảo Đại married Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan ( died 15 September 1963, Chabrignac, France ), a commoner from a wealthy Vietnamese Roman Catholic family.

In 1543, John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latymer, died leaving a wealthy widow, formerly Katherine Parr.

His debts would stay with him for the rest of life: he narrowly avoided bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by wealthy sitters and friends, and died insolvent.

Deciding to emigrate, the couple and their children moved to Australia's New South Wales in 1878, but it was here that Mary died after a few years, and so in 1886 Stephen remarried, this time to Harriet Eliza Gordon ( 1853 – 1910 ), an Englishwoman from a wealthy background who had moved to Australia when still a child.

Though he died in Padua, he was born and raised in a wealthy family in Lisbon.

Both London and Paris hosted powerful philhellenic committees, supported by prominent and wealthy personalities, such as the romantic poet Lord Byron in England ( who died fighting for the Greek cause in 1824 ) and the writers Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo in France.

Even though her own family, the Spencers, and her husband's family, the Cavendishes, were immensely wealthy, she was reported to have died deeply in debt because they did not give her any money.

His father, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant serving in Spain as a naval agent for the U. S. government, was ruined financially because of his support of Spain in the Napoleonic Wars and died in 1828 while Meade was not yet a teenager.