Example sentences of "his second son " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( His second son , Philip Dormer Stanhope , who became the fourth earl , was the famous politician , wit , gambler and letter writer . ) |
| 2 | Edmund Hornby of Dalton Hall had bought the living for his second son , and George , being a man of means , decided to upgrade the mean existing rectory to suit his status . |
| 3 | The news of the capture of the ark , and of the deaths of Eli and Phinehas , is taken to Phinehas ' wife , nine months pregnant with his second son . |
| 4 | In 1239 he gave the Forest of Dartmoor to his brother Richard , Earl of Cornwall , and his heirs , and in 1267 Amounderness and Lonsdale Forests in Lancashire and Pickering Forest in Yorkshire to his second son Edmund , Earl of Lancaster and his heirs . |
| 5 | His second son Pepin would rule Italy , Bavaria and eastern Suabia . |
| 6 | The beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who worked for John for seven years before marrying his second son , Robert |
| 7 | In Berkeley 's Siris , for example — we know Coleridge was passing through a Berkeley phase as he named his second son , born in 1798 , alter him — we read that ‘ there is according to those philosophies ( Platonic and Stoic ) a life infused throughout all things ’ . |
| 8 | Godwine and his second son , Harold , had kept the peace off the Sussex coast by using Bosham and Pevensey in the later 1040s to drive pirates from the seas . |
| 9 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 10 | His second son , Lionel Duke of Clarence , had died in 1368 , and his third son , John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster , spent much time abroad in the early 1370s . |
| 11 | As a mark of friendship with his second son , the Duke of York ( later George Vl ) , King George V granted Diana 's grandfather , Maurice Fermoy , the 4th Baron , the lease of Park House , a spacious property originally built to accommodate the overflow of guests and staff from nearby Sandringham House . |
| 12 | Indeed , the situation was so bleak in 1980 that Sir John came out of retirement to replace his second son Peter , who had taken control of the family firm three years before . |
| 13 | It is now clear that the King had the gravest doubts about the general suitability of his heir for the Throne , and that these doubts went far enough to turn his mind towards the desirability of getting his second son to succeed instead . |
| 14 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
| 15 | She knew from village gossip and her own observation that Harry Pascoe treated his second son cruelly . |
| 16 | He had foreseen it all , sixteen years ago , on that dreadful evening when his darling wife Lin Yua had died giving birth to his second son , Li Yuan . |
| 17 | The Khans who had joined with Sidacai were all members of the family of Kodai , who was a grandson of the Ancestor via the line of his second son Ordai , Conqueror of N'pan . |
| 18 | His elder son died in 1874 and he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son , George William ( born 1844 ) . |
| 19 | About the same time his second son Daniel [ q.v. ] , |
| 20 | Robinson died in February 1680 and was succeeded by his second son John ( born 1660 ) . |
| 21 | He was himself forced to remain in England to defend his interests and never settled in his colony ; he appointed first his brother Leonard [ q.v. ] and then his second son Charles to the post of governor . |
| 22 | He was succeeded in the barony by his second son , Charles ( born 1637 ) . |
| 23 | The bulk of his lands descended to his eldest son , another Robert , but it was his second son , Sir Thomas Holland , first Earl of Kent [ q.v. ] , who refounded the family 's fortunes , winning fame in the French war , marrying Joan of Kent , granddaughter of Edward I , and acquiring the earldom of Kent in right of his wife . |
| 24 | Colebrooke died 5 August 1809 in Bath-Easton and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son James Edward ( born 1761 ) , his eldest son having died in April 1809 . |
| 25 | He died at Stratton Street , Piccadilly , London , 10 April 1874 and was succeeded in the marquessate by his second son , Hubert George Canning de Burgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | Maud was the mother of his second son , William . |
| 27 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 28 | His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry . |
| 29 | His second son Francis had joined the partnership , which the two brothers now carried on together . |
| 30 | His second son had left , calling the home a ‘ hell-hole ’ . |