Word: grandnephew
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...Boston's No. 1 citizen, Charles Francis Adams; grandnephew of Henry Adams; great-great-great-grandson of President John Adams...
Died. Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, 76, Due de Richelieu, the title conferred by Louis XIII on his Prime Minister, Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, who passed it on to a grandnephew, Jean de Vignerot, ancestor of the last Due de Richelieu; after a month's illness; in Manhattan...
Married. Prince Edmond Poniatowski, 26, great-great-great-grandnephew of Stanislas August Poniatowski, last King of Poland (1764-95); and Anne Darwin Goodrich, 27, granddaughter of James Putnam Goodrich, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Indiana; in Rhinebeck...
...mine has been the secret of your success. You worked your head off for it. So here it is." Charlie locked the pin up in a box and, with a characteristic gesture, added a provision to his will, directing that the pin go to Bill Ruete'c grandnephew...
Roundheads & Rome. The ticking began almost at birth. The son of Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan and grandnephew of Lord Macaulay, young George grew up in a rambling mansion in Shakespeare's Warwickshire. He was a "queer, happy little boy," who would play soldier ("Napoleonic period") by the hour, and could recite the Lays of Ancient Rome by heart. At school, he was happiest arguing the Roundhead cause against his pro-Cavalier school chums, or wandering about some nearby battlefield with his history-minded house master ("O boy, you oughtn't to have a hot bath twice...