John Christian Kunkel
John Christian Kunkel (September 18, 1816 – October 14, 1870) was a Whig and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
He was the grandfather of John Crain Kunkel.
Kaya Alp
Kaya Alp was, according to Ottoman tradition, the son of Kızıl Buğa and the father of Suleyman Shah, who was, in turn, the grandfather of Ertuğrul, and the great grandfather of the Ottoman Empire founder, Osman I.
Arthur Middleton
Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 – January 1, 1787), of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.
His parents were Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams, both of English descent.
He was educated in Britain, at Harrow School, Westminster School, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He studied law at the Middle Temple and traveled extensively in Europe where his taste in literature, music, and art was developed and refined.
In 1764, Arthur and his bride Mary Izard settled at Middleton Place.
Keenly interested in Carolina, Middleton was a more radical thinker than his father, Henry Middleton.
He was a leader of the American Party in Carolina and one of the boldest members of the Council of Safety and its Secret Committee.
In 1776, Arthur was elected to succeed his father in the Continental Congress and subsequently was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Also in 1776, he and William Henry Drayton designed the Great Seal of South Carolina.
Despite the time he spent in England, his attitude toward Loyalists was said to be ruthless.
During the American Revolutionary War, Middleton served in the defense of Charleston.
After the city's fall to the British in 1780, he was sent as a prisoner of war to St. Augustine, Florida (along with Edward Rutledge and Thomas Heyward Jr.), until exchanged in July the following year.
Middleton died on January 1, 1787 at the age of 44 and was buried in the family tomb in the Gardens at Middleton Place.
The death notice from the "State Gazette of South-Carolina" (SC), Jan. 4, 1787, described him as a "tender husband and parent, humane master, steady unshaken patriot, the gentleman, and the scholar."
The plantation then passed to Henry, his eldest son, later Governor of South Carolina, U.S. Representative and Minister to Russia.
Arthur Middleton was also an ancestor of actor Charles B. Middleton, who played Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon movies of the 1930s.
Arthur Middleton's son-in-law was Congressman Daniel Elliott Huger who was the grandfather-in-law of Confederate General Arthur Middleton Manigault who was also a descendant of Henry Middleton.
Arthur Middleton's sister, Susannah Middleton, was the great-great-grandmother of Baldur von Schirach, onetime leader of the Hitler Youth and later Governor ("Gauleiter" or "Reichsstatthalter") of the Reichsgau Vienna, who was convicted of "crimes against humanity" at the Nuremberg Trials, through Baldur Von Schirach's mother Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou (1872–1944).
The United States Navy ship USS "Arthur Middleton" (AP-55/APA-25) was named for him.
John Westley
Rev. John Westley( 1636 – 78) was an English nonconformist minister.
He was the grandfather of John Wesley( founder of Methodism).
Lyon Cohen
Lyon Cohen( 1868–1937) was a Polish- born Canadian businessman and a philanthropist.
He was the grandfather of singer/ poet Leonard Cohen.
John Izard Middleton
John Izard Middleton (1785–1849) was an American archeologist and artist.
Born just outside Charleston, South Carolina, he was the son of Mary Izard and Arthur Middleton (a signer of the Declaration of Independence).
He was dubbed "the first American Classical Archaeologist" by Charles Eliot Norton.
In 1810 he married Eliza Augusta Falconet, the daughter of a banker in Naples.
Three children were born to the Middletons, but all died young.
Middleton died in Paris in 1849.
His remains were returned to the United States for burial at Middleton Place, South Carolina.
Admitted to Cambridge University in 1803, though it is doubtful if he resided, John Middleton spent a good part of his adult life traveling in France and in Italy.
While in Italy he was attracted to the remains of ancient sites, particularly those in Latium (modern Lazio).
Inspired perhaps by the work of the Frenchman Louis-Charles-Francois Petit-Radel (author of "Voyage historique cronographique
et philosophique dans le principales villes des l’Italie" (Paris, 1815) ; "Recherches sur le Monuments Cyclopéens" (Paris, 1841)), Middleton made observations and sketches of the sites he visited.
Middleton executed the drawings while traveling in Italy during 1808 and 1809 and considered his work an artistic achievement.
He attributed more importance to the drawings than the text, but because it appeared during a time of turmoil in Europe, his work received slight attention from contemporaries.
Some of the drawings appeared in later works on archaeology without credit to Middleton, notably those of Edward Dodwell with whom Middleton travelled.
He compiled the sketches from his travels in 1808 and 1809 in order to publish as a folio-sized book, "Grecian remains in Italy: a description of Cyclopian walls, and of Roman antiquities."
Archibald Hope, Lord Rankeillor
Sir Archibald Hope, Lord Rankeillor (1639 – 10 October 1706) was a Scottish advocate and judge, the second son of John Hope, Lord Craighall, the grandfather of the botanist John Hope and the great-grandfather of the chemist Thomas Charles Hope, FRSE.
Abd al-Muttalib
Abd al- Muttalib Shaybah ibn Hashim( c. 497 – 578) was the grandfather of Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot
Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot( c. 1332–1387) was an English nobleman and soldier.
He was the grandfather of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.
Prithvipati Shah
Prithvipati Shah( ?–1716) was the king of the Gorkha Kingdom in the Indian subcontinent, present- day Nepal.
He was the grandfather of Nara Bhupal Shah.

Question: Who is the paternal grandfather of John Izard Middleton?
Answer: Henry Middleton