Takayama Tomoteru
He was the father of Takayama Ukon, and was a Kirishitan.
Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat)
Viscount was the first Director of Railways in Japan and is known as the" father of the Japanese railways".
Arthur Beauchamp
Arthur Beauchamp( 1827 – 28 April 1910) was a Member of Parliament from New Zealand.
He is remembered as the father of Harold Beauchamp, who rose to fame as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was the father of writer Katherine Mansfield.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
John Templeton (botanist)
John Templeton( 1766–1825) was an early Irish naturalist and botanist.
He is often referred to as the" Father of Irish Botany".
He was the father of naturalist, artist and entomologist Robert Templeton.
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Michael de Pencier
Michael Christian de Pencier,( born January 19, 1935) is an entrepreneur, environmental investor, and publisher.
He is the grandson of Archbishop Adam de Pencier and brother- in- law of Richard A. N. Bonnycastle.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, de Pencier attended Trinity College School, the University of Toronto where he was a member of the Toronto Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, and the University of Michigan.
He is the chairman of Key Publishers Company Limited.
In this role, he launched, acquired or ran many of the country ’s leading magazines, including" Toronto LifeCanadian GeographicQuill and Quire", Where Magazines and" Canadian Business".
An active environmental investor, de Pencier is the co-founder of Investeco Capital Corporation and the Green Living Show.
He is also the past Chairman of WWF- Canada and the Ontario College of Art.
In 2013, he was honored as the 2013 leader for conservation.
As one of Canada's leading magazine publishers, de Pencier was awarded the Order of Ontario in 1997, the Order of Canada in 1999, and an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2002 from Ryerson University.
He is the father of film producers Nicholas de Pencier and Miranda de Pencier.
Anacyndaraxes
Anacyndaraxes was the father of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria.
Richard A. N. Bonnycastle
Richard Arthur Northwood Bonnycastle (born September 26, 1934 in Winnipeg, Manitoba)
He is a Canadian businessman who is the former owner and publisher of Harlequin Enterprises
(Harlequin Enterprises was founded in 1949 by his father Richard H. G. Bonnycastle)
the world’s largest publisher of romantic fiction and an owner of Thoroughbred racehorses Harlequin Ranches.
He is part of the Bonnycastle family founded in Canada by British military officer, Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle.
Dick Bonnycastle was educated at Ravenscourt School, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario and graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1956 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
After graduation he worked for the Great West Life Assurance Company and subsequently, Richardson Securities of Canada as a Corporate Underwriter.
Concurrently, he operated Cavendish Investing Ltd., to which, commencing in 1968, he devoted all of his time.
Dick has had a distinguished business career spanning more than half a century, including decades of experience on the corporate governance side as the Chairman and Independent Director of many Canadian Corporations as varied as Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. (1968-1981), Torstar Ltd. (1975-1982), The Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDIC) (1978-1988), National Leasing Group, Bracknell Corporation(1983-1990), Patheon Inc. (1984-1986), Rupertsland Resources Ltd. (1975-1983), Westco Restaurants Inc.
(founders of Moxies)(1992-1996) and Western Feedlots Ltd. (1970-1978) to name a few.
Dick is currently Chairman and President of Cavendish Investing Ltd. and Pacific Iron Ore Corporation.
Within a few years of taking over from his father, he moved the company's operations to Toronto, Ontario where he would build it into a major international force in the book publishing industry.
By 1971, Dick Bonnycastle had orchestrated the buyout of British publisher Mills & Boon and had contracted with Pocket Books and Simon & Schuster to distribute the Mills & Boon novels in the United States.
In addition, he oversaw expansion to Australia in 1974, The Netherlands in 1975, set up a joint venture in 1976 in West Germany and in 1977 established a subsidiary in France.
Dick Bonnycastle saw his company grow to where it would command eighty percent of the romance fiction market in North America.
In late 1975, Toronto Star Ltd. purchased a 52.5 percent interest in Harlequin Enterprises and in 1981 acquired the balance of the company's shares.
Dick has also published 4 books, To Ride the Wind – Albert Hochbaum, A Gentleman Adventurer
, I Fought
Reil, My Life with Birds – Angus Shortt
Dick is a supporter of various causes related to nature an the environment and has been on the Council, Fort Whyte Centre for Environmental Education (1988-2015), Trustee, Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research (1990-1995), Founder (one of 10) of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Association (1988), Trustee North American Wildlife Foundation, operating Delta Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Station (1978-1988)
Richard H. G. Bonnycastle
Richard Henry Gardyn Bonnycastle (August 25, 1903 - September 29, 1968) was a Canadian lawyer, fur trader, adventurer, and a businessman who helped found and then owned the romance novel publishing company, Harlequin Enterprises.
Born in Binscarth, Manitoba, Richard was the first of the six children Ellen Boulton and her husband Angus Bonnycastle, a lawyer and provincial politician.
He was educated at University of Trinity College in Toronto, Ontario and at England's Oxford University where he toured Europe as a member of the university's ice hockey team which included a future Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, and a future Governor General of Canada, Roland Michener.
In 1925, Richard Bonnycastle went to work for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Between 1926 and 1937 he worked as a junior accountant before winding up as district manager for its western Arctic operations.
In 1984, his diaries of the years he spent in the north were edited and compiled by journalist and author Heather Robertson and published as "A Gentleman Adventurer: The Arctic Diaries of R.H.G. Bonnycastle".
In 1931, Richard Bonnycastle married Mary Northwood.
The couple had three children.

Question: What is the place of birth of Richard A. N. Bonnycastle's father?
Answer: Binscarth