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...George took special pride in his ancestor, Sir Sitwell Sitwell, an 18th-Century baronet who once hunted an escaped Bengal tiger over the Yorkshire moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
...Governor's one direct Saltonstall ancestor in the Revolutionary War did no fighting, but at least he favored the American side. Most of his contemporary kin were Tories...
...idea was not so dizzy as it seemed. The Scot was William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 50, Colonel the Baron Sempill, and also possessor of a title many Nova Scotians had not known existed: Baronet of Nova Scotia. An ancestor, one Sir William Forbes, served King James I in England's 17th-Century civil wars, had been rewarded with the baronetcy and 16,000 acres in "New Scotland." When "New Scotland" was ceded to the French in 1632, Sir William lost the land but kept the title...
...Major's family has been fighting for this country since the first Callaway landed in Virginia in the middle of the 17th Century. His great-great-grandfather, a Virginia colonel of cavalry, was voted a medal by Congress for his valor in the Revolutionary War. Another ancestor, Colonel Richard Callaway, was one of the Southern financiers who backed Daniel Boone in his wilderness explorations. He was scalped in an Indian massacre while helping to subdue that wilderness...
...agrees that Christianizing Korea has been a slow task. Of the country's 23,000,000 people only some 500,000 are Christians. Koreans seem indifferent to religion. Buddhism has died out. Some educated people have embraced Confucianism, which Dr. Underwood considers "hardly a religion." Most Koreans are ancestor-worshipers...