Example sentences of "son and the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Henry ( c. 1592–1645 ) , landowner and farmer , was born c .1592 , probably in Hutton Cranswick , east Yorkshire , the second of five sons and the second of six children of James Best , yeoman of Hutton Cranswick ( later gentleman of Elmswell , east Yorkshire ) , and his wife Dorothy , whose background and maiden name are not known . |
| 2 | , Frederick William ( ‘ Peter ’ ) ( 1877–1950 ) , microbiologist , was born 22 October 1877 in Camberley , Surrey , the eldest of six sons and the second of the eleven children of Dr William Henry Twort , general practitioner , of Camberley , and his wife Elizabeth Crampton , only child of Joseph Crampton Webster , engineer , of London . |
| 3 | , William Thomson ( ‘ Will ’ ) ( 1888–1949 ) , comedian , was born 6 December 1888 in Stockton-on-Tees , the second of three sons and the third of six children of William Robert Hay , engineer of Inverness-shire , and his wife Elizabeth Ebden , the daughter of a Barnsley fish merchant . |
| 4 | , John ( 1585–1654 ) , dean of Winchester , was born in Seaton , Angus , 25 June 1585 , the sixth of eight sons and the eighth of twelve children of Sir Peter Young [ q.v. ] , tutor to James VI of Scotland , and his first wife Elizabeth Gibb . |
| 5 | , George ( 1698–1761 ) , goldsmith , was born in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk , and baptized 7 July 1698 , the fifth of the six sons and the eighth of ten children of James Wickes , upholsterer , of Bury St Edmunds , and his wife Dorothy Burton . |
| 6 | , Harry ( 1871–1948 ) , steel metallurgist , was born 18 February 1871 in Sheffield , Yorkshire , the youngest of five sons and the eighth of nine children of John Brearley , steel melter of Sheffield , and his wife Jane Senior , daughter of a blacksmith of Penistone , Yorkshire . |
| 7 | , Sir John Tomlinson , first baronet ( 1842–1919 ) , chemical manufacturer and politician , was born 8 February 1842 in Everton , Liverpool , the second of the three sons and the fourth of the five children of John Brunner , a Swiss Protestant minister who migrated to Lancashire in 1832 and became a Unitarian and a schoolmaster , and his wife Margaret Curphey , from the Isle of Man . |
| 8 | , Sir Alfred Bray ( 1849–1922 ) , ecclesiastical lawyer , mathematician , and treasurer of the Royal Society , was born 6 July 1849 in Kensington , the third of four sons and the fourth of five children of the Revd John Edward Kempe , rector of St James , Piccadilly , and his wife Harriet , daughter of the Revd Robert Serrell Wood . |
| 9 | , Sir Alfred Seale ( 1844–1927 ) , engineer and politician , was born 27 October 1844 in Derby , the fourth of the five sons and the fourth of the eight children of William Haslam , ironmaster of Derby , and his wife Ann , daughter of Joseph Smith of Branstone , Staffordshire . |
| 10 | , Walter ( 1896–1966 ) , trade-union official and political activist , was born 17 June 1896 at 22 Randolph Street , Kentish Town , London , the youngest of four sons and the sixth of seven surviving children of Henry William Hannington , foreman bricklayer of Kentish Town , and his wife Eliza Smith . |
| 11 | , Sir ( Robert ) Ashton ( 1845–1929 ) , industrialist , was born 4 February 1845 in Dursley , Gloucestershire , the third of four sons and the sixth of eight children of George Lister , tanner and wire card-maker of Dursley , by his second wife Louisa Richards , who came from a Dursley family of maltsters . |
| 12 | But then the first son dies leaving a son and the second dies childless . |
| 13 | , Francis ( 1822–1898 ) , photographer , was born 7 October 1822 in Chesterfield , Derbyshire , the only son and the second of three children of Francis Frith , cooper of Chesterfield , and his wife Alice . |
| 14 | , Johann Christian ( 1735–1782 ) , composer , was born 5 September 1735 in Leipzig , the sixth and youngest son and the eleventh of the thirteen children of Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife Anna Magdalena , daughter of Johann Caspar Wilcke , court trumpeter . |