Word: great-great-grandson
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...Chester, Pa., Donald McKay, seven-year-old great-great-grandson of Donald McKay, famed designer of U. S. clipper ships, christened the first of a group of U. S. Maritime Commission's cargo vessels. Name: Donald McKay...
Married. Mrs. Edna Christian, 43, widowed mother of Charles J. B. Christian, 6, who is a great-great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of H.M.S. Bounty's mutiny; to David Young, head of the present settlement of 204 persons on Pitcairn Island, where the eight rebellious English sailors, 18 Polynesian men & women landed in 1790; on Pitcairn...
...James Boswell left a reference in his will to his private papers stored in an ebony chest at the family seat of Auchinleck Castle, Scotland. For generations his descendants rebuffed enquiring scholars and collectors, claimed that the ebony chest had been destroyed. In 1927 Boswell's great-great-grandson, Lord Talbot de Malahide, permitted Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, famed collector of items on Samuel Johnson, to examine the material, eventually sold it to him. An edition of Boswell's private papers, called the greatest literary discovery of a century, limited to 570 subscribers, running...
Nevertheless, undiscovered Boswell items were apparently so thickly scattered around his great-great-grandson's home that they all but got under the feet of guests. When Lady Talbot gave a house party in 1930, another mass of Boswell's papers was found in an old croquet box. This batch included the manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, half again as long as the previously published work and the most valuable Boswell manuscript thus far discovered. Last week, 163 years after it was written, Boswell's full Journal was published...
...want to succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...