Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick, 1887-1966

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Red Deer ◽  
Collateral Branch ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
The Law

Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick died at Oxford on 17 October 1966, aged 79. He was born at West Norwood, London, on 8 March 1887, the eldest son of Llewellyn Sidney Herbert Hammick and Katherine Roy Hammick, née Collyns. There was a younger brother. His paternal grandfather was a London business man who took to the law and became a barrister, acting as secretary at the Registrar-General’s office and as Commissioner for Census, and who wrote The law of marriage (1873). He had changed his name from Hammack; earlier Hammacks were business men in London whose names are to be found back to 1713 in the records of the Plaisterers Company. A collateral branch existed in Shropshire. Hammick’s father was trained as an architect but does not appear to have practised. His mother was the daughter of a London tea-broker who had married Mary Dalziel of Ayr. Earlier members of the Collyns family were doctors and parsons in Devon. His maternal grandfather, C. P. Collyns, of Dulverton, was a well-known sportsman and author of The chase of the wild red deer .

Lord Action and Latin America

1963 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
S. Paul Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Latin America ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
French Politics ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandfather

Lord Acton's detachment, keen historical sense and vast knowledge reveal an insight applicable to recent Latin-American events. As Acton warned, “History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own”.John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton was born in Naples in 1834. His paternal grandfather had made his career in the service of the King of Naples whose Prime Minister he was during the period of the French Revolution and Napoleon. His maternal grandfather was a noble of the Holy Roman Empire who served Napoleon and sat as a peer of France and a colleague of Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna. His maternal great-uncle had been Archbishop Elector of Mainz, and his wife's family, the Arco Valleys, were active in French politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. Acton's step-father was Lord Granville, several times British Foreign Secretary.

scholarly journals Grandchild’s IQ is associated with grandparental environments prior to the birth of the parents

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Jean Golding ◽  
Gerard van den Berg ◽  
Kate Northstone ◽  
Matthew Suderman ◽  
Genette Ellis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Developmental Variation ◽  
Smoking In Pregnancy ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandmother ◽  
Avon Longitudinal Study ◽  
In Pregnancy

Background. Despite convincing animal experiments demonstrating the potential for environmental exposures in one generation to have demonstrable effects generations later, there have been few relevant human studies. Those that have been undertaken have demonstrated associations, for example, between exposures such as nutrition and cigarette smoking in the grandparental generation and outcomes in grandchildren. We hypothesised that such transgenerational associations might be associated with the IQ of the grandchild, and that it would be likely that there would be differences in results between the sexes of the grandparents, parents, and children. Method. We used three-generational data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).  We incorporated environmental factors concerning grandparents (F0) and focussed on three exposures that we hypothesised may have independent transgenerational associations with the IQ of the grandchildren (F2): (i) UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at grandparental birth year; (ii) whether grandfather smoked; and (iii) whether the grandmother smoked in the relevant pregnancy. Potential confounders were ages of grandparents when the relevant parent was born, ethnic background, education level and social class of each grandparent. Results. After adjustment, all three target exposures had specific associations with measures of IQ in the grandchild. Paternal grandfather smoking was associated with reduced total IQ at 15 years; maternal grandfather smoking with reduced performance IQ at 8 years and reduced total IQ at 15.  Paternal grandmother smoking in pregnancy was associated with reduced performance IQ at 8, especially in grandsons. GDP at grandparents’ birth produced independent associations of reduced IQ with higher GDP; this was particularly true of paternal grandmothers. Conclusions. These results are complex and need to be tested in other datasets. They highlight the need to consider possible transgenerational associations in studying developmental variation in populations.

scholarly journals Arthur Charles Neish, 1916 - 1973

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 294-315 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Telephone Company ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Fishing Villages ◽  
Cape Breton ◽  
Paternal Grandfather

Arthur Charles Neish was born in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, on 4 July 1916, the first son and third child of a family of two daughters and two sons. His father, Charles Wiswell Neish, was an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Nova Scotia. His mother, Florence Mabel ( née Canavan), was a graduate in geology of Kings College which was situated in Windsor, Nova Scotia, at that time. Arthur Neish’s paternal grandfather, David Neish, was a native of Dundee, Scotland, and was educated at the Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He was an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Nova Scotia at the time of his death. He married Sarah Sanford Wiswell of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a descendant of a Massachusetts family (originally Puritans) who remained loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution and emigrated to Canada. His maternal grandfather, Robert Canavan, was of Irish ancestry and was a building contractor in Nova Scotia. He married Annie Morrison of Whycocomagh, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She was a descendant of a Scottish Highland family. On 10 June 1944 Arthur Neish married Dorothy Ann Ray in Montreal, Quebec. She was the only child of Arthur Gordon Ray and Dorothy Ray (née Slack). Her maternal grandfather (George Slack) was Treasurer of the Bell Telephone Company in Montreal. Arthur Neish lived in several small towns and villages in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island during his childhood. Some were agricultural communities, others were fishing villages.

scholarly journals Grandchild’s IQ is associated with grandparental environments prior to the birth of the parents

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Jean Golding ◽  
Gerard van den Berg ◽  
Kate Northstone ◽  
Matthew Suderman ◽  
Genette Ellis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Developmental Variation ◽  
Smoking In Pregnancy ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandmother ◽  
Avon Longitudinal Study ◽  
In Pregnancy

Background: In spite of convincing animal experiments demonstrating the potential for environmental exposures in one generation to have demonstrable effects generations later, there have been few relevant human studies. Those that have been undertaken have demonstrated associations, for example, between exposures such as nutrition and cigarette smoking in the grandparental generation and outcomes in grandchildren. We hypothesised that such transgenerational associations might be associated with the IQ of the grandchild, and that it would be likely that there would be differences in results between the sexes of the grandparents, parents and children. Methods: We used three-generational data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).  We incorporated environmental factors concerning grandparents (F0) and focussed on three exposures that we hypothesised may have independent transgenerational associations with the IQ of the grandchildren (F2): (i) UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at grandparental birth year; (ii) whether the grandfather smoked; and (iii) whether the grandmother smoked in the relevant pregnancy. Potential confounders were ages of grandparents when the relevant parent was born, ethnic background, education level and social class of each grandparent. Results: After adjustment, all three target exposures had specific associations with measures of IQ in the grandchild. Paternal grandfather smoking was associated with reduced total IQ at 15 years; maternal grandfather smoking with reduced performance IQ at 8 years and reduced total IQ at 15.  Paternal grandmother smoking in pregnancy was associated with reduced performance IQ at 8, especially in grandsons. GDP at grandparents’ birth produced independent associations of reduced IQ with higher GDP; this was particularly true of paternal grandmothers. Conclusions: These results are complex and need to be tested in other datasets. They highlight the need to consider possible transgenerational associations in studying developmental variation in populations.

scholarly journals ADOLESCENTS’ ATTITUDES ON GRANDPARENT INVOLVEMENT IN CHILD CARE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S457-S457
Author(s):  
Katherine E del Rosario ◽  
Raphael Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Maternal Grandmother ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandmother ◽  
Perceived Involvement ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This descriptive associative study focused on the attitudes of selected adolescents toward the involvement of grandparents (maternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, paternal grandfather) in childcare. Specifically, it aimed at determining the rate of closeness of these adolescents toward their own grandparents; their attitudes toward the involvement of their grandparents; and the relationship between the students’ closeness with their grandparents and their attitudes toward grandparents’ involvement. A survey was administered to 185 adolescents aged 16 to 22 from the University of the Philippines. Results showed that most of the respondents (43.38%) are either very close or close to their grandparents, especially their maternal grandmother (n = 126). The attitudes of the respondents toward grandparents’ involvement were measured by looking at their rate of agreeableness on 17 statements. Results showed that most of the respondents either agree or neither agree nor disagree (M = 2.60) on grandparents’ involvement. The correlation analysis showed a moderate to high positive linear association between MGM closeness and MGM involvement (r=.72); MGF closeness and MGF involvement (r=.74); PGM closeness and PGM involvement (r=.63); and PGF closeness and PGF involvement. This implies that perceived closeness increases with perceived involvement. The findings of this study emphasized on the role grandparents play in the lives of adolescent grandchildren. Some implications of this study with regards to future research in this field are described.

scholarly journals John Franklin Enders, 10 February 1897 - 8 September 1985

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 211-233 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Individual

John Franklin Enders came from a family background marked by strong characters and remarkable achievements. His maternal grandfather was a close associate and financial adviser of Mark Twain, and his paternal grandfather walked from town to town selling insurance, later becoming President of the Aetna Insurance Company. His parents were active and of strong character and lived to a ripe old age. His father was President of the principal bank of Hartford and at his death he left a fortune of $19 million. The family is said to have been one with close ties and mutual respect and to have appreciated the needs of the individual. John had one brother, also President of the Hartford National Bank, and two sisters— all charming and accomplished people.

Sydney John Folley, 1906-1970

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 240-265
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
Great Western Railway ◽  
School Books ◽  
Value Of Education

Sydney John Folley was born on 14 January 1906 into a working-class family in Swindon, Wilts. He died on 29 June 1970. His father, Thomas John Folley of 75 Graham Street, Swindon, who died in 1950 at the age of 83 years, was for more than 40 years an engine fitter in the Great Western Railway Running Shed at Swindon. His mother, Katie Folley (née Baggs), died in 1938 at the age of 67 years. John Folley, as he was always known, had an elder sister, but was an only son. He was twice married, first, in 1935, to Madeline Kerr of Altrincham, Cheshire, and, then, when this marriage was dissolved in 1947, to Mary Lee Muntz (née Harnett) of Reading. There were no children of either marriage. Folley was proud of the railwaymen in his family and he was fascinated by trains. His maternal grandfather and his paternal great-grandfather both worked in one capacity or another for the Great Western and his paternal grandfather was a well known passenger driver on that railway. He recalls that his childhood circumstances were those usual in households of the skilled artisan class, but that his parents had a great respect for and were fully aware of the value of education. They were anxious to make it possible for both their children to take full advantage of every educational opportunity and were prepared to make considerable sacrifices to this end. ‘Perhaps the number of books in my home, when I was a child, was unusual for a working class home at that time. Probably, many of them were school books of my sister who was 8 years my senior and had received a secondary education after winning a scholarship. From an early age I had a passion for reading and took full advantage of these books’.

scholarly journals Reginald Crundall Punnett, 1875-1967

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
The Town ◽  
Parish Registers

Reginald Crundall Punnett, the eldest of the three children (♂, ♂, ♀) of George Punnett and his wife Emily Crundall, was born at Tonbridge in Kent on 20 June 1875. Both of the parental families were of Kentish stock. The name Punnett is a fairly common one in Kent and Sussex and is frequently to be encountered in the parish registers of the 16th and 17th centuries. There is a hamlet called Punnett’s Town near Heathfield in Sussex. In the 18th century a member of the family, a grower of strawberries, among other things, invented and gave his name to the small chip basket in which he sent his produce from Bromley to the London market. Punnett’s paternal grandfather settled in Tonbridge in 1827 there to found a building firm which is still in existence. This firm built much of Tonbridge School as well as many of the fine houses in the town. His maternal grandfather was the founder of a timber merchant’s firm, William Crundall & Son, in Dover, of which town his eldest son, Sir William Crundall, was mayor for no less than thirteen years. The family probably had its origin in the little village of Crundale, near Wye, and some 10 miles from Charing. It is recorded that the Charing Cross was fashioned by one Richard de Crundall and his son Robert.

William Whitehead Watts, 1860-1947

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 263-279 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Training ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Chemical Laboratory ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
At Home

Born on 7 June 1860 in Broseley, Shropshire, William Whitehead Watts was the elder of two sons (and only children) of Isaac Watts, a music master, and Maria Watts (née Whitehead). His paternal grandfather, also Isaac Watts, was a schoolmaster, and his maternal grandfather, John Whitehead, a farmer. After some preliminary training (including a year in a dame school) he attended successively Bitterley Grammar School (1869-1870), Shifnal Grammar School (1871-1873) and Denstone College, Staffordshire. As he took pride in stressing, his parents, although not well off, considered no sacrifice too great to ensure that their sons should have the best education within their reach. According to Watts himself, his first essay in science took the form of firework making, to which he devoted the greater part of at least one term while at Bitterley Grammar School. His taste for science thus presumably engendered was encouraged at Denstone College by the mathematical master, the Rev. David Edwardes (later headmaster) who inaugurated a chemical laboratory almost immediately after the school was opened in 1873. Watts must have joined the College (which was the first Woodard School to be opened in the Midlands) at or shortly after its foundation. Coached by Edwardes in physics and chemistry for a Cambridge scholarship and doubtless aided by his own discoveries in a chemical laboratory which he enthusiastically fitted up at home, he gained a £40 Exhibition to Sidney Sussex College; to this award the school authorities added an Exhibition of £20 as a mark of the first occasion on which a scholar had obtained an open Exhibition at a university. The Exhibition was converted by the College into a Scholarship, which was further augmented in due course by additions and prizes.

scholarly journals William Blaxland Benham, 1860 - 1950

1951 ◽  
Vol 7 (20) ◽  
pp. 293-301 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
The Law ◽  
Large House

William Blaxland Benham was born on 29 March 1860 at Tsleworth, Middlesex, England, the sixth child of Edward (originally Ebenezer) Benham, a London solicitor, who during the year of his death (1871) was President of the Law Society. Elis mother had been Mary A. Shoppee of Uxbridge, Middlesex, daughter of a London merchant. There is no record of special interest in science or of noteworthy public activities in any member of the Benham family prior to those of Wm B. Benham, though his paternal grandfather, as a publisher, had produced a number of books on natural history. His surroundings and immediate ancestry were those of a fairly prosperous professional family. His boyhood was very healthy and happy, spent in a large house with spacious grounds adjacent to the home of the Duke of Northumberland.

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