Example sentences of "[conj] two daughters of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that two Daughters of Charity are going to Romania to set up a training programme for nursing staff and care assistants . |
| 2 | , William ( 1872–1961 ) , morris dancer , was born 8 September 1872 in Old Road , Titup , a hamlet on the edge of Headington Quarry , Oxford , the eldest child in the family of four sons and two daughters of William Kimber , a brick-maker of Titup , and his wife Sophia Ann , née Kimber , a smock-maker from Horspath . |
| 3 | , ( Edward ) Stanley ( 1840–1913 ) , postage-stamp dealer , was born 21 June 1840 in Plymouth , the youngest child in the family of three sons and two daughters of William Gibbons , pharmaceutical chemist , and his wife Elizabeth Langridge of Portsea , Hampshire . |
| 4 | , William Cecil ( 1849–1929 ) , mountaineer , was born 25 May 1849 in Bell Busk near Gargrave , Yorkshire , the eldest in the family of three sons and two daughters of William Slingsby , mill owner of Carleton-in-Craven , and his wife Mary Ann , daughter of Isaac Dewhurst of Skipton . |
| 5 | , William Arthur Smith ( 1854–1924 ) , metalwork designer , was born at 6 Sussex Square , Paddington , London , 17 October 1854 , the eldest in the family of four sons and two daughters of William Benson ( 1816–1887 ) , who had been called to the bar , and his wife Elizabeth Soulsby , daughter of Thomas Smith of Colebrook Park , Tonbridge . |
| 6 | , Charles Hamilton ( 1895–1915 ) , poet , was born in Aberdeen 19 May 1895 , the elder twin son and third surviving child in the family of two sons and two daughters of William Ritchie Sorley [ q.v. ] , professor of moral philosophy at Aberdeen University , and his wife Janetta Colquhoun Smith . |
| 7 | , Sir Neill ( 1869–1953 ) , major-general , was born at 79 Lancaster Gate , Paddington , London , 8 October 1869 , the second son and second child in the family of five sons and two daughters of Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm , CB , Royal Engineers , of Portallach , and his wife Isabella Wyld , daughter of John Brown . |
| 8 | , Isaac ( 1890–1918 ) , artist and poet , was born in Bristol 25 November 1890 , the second child and second son in the family of four sons and two daughters of Dovber ( later Barnett ) Rosenberg , a Lithuanian who had emigrated from Moscow to avoid conscription into the Russian army and settled in Bristol , working as a pedlar , and his wife Hacha , daughter of an innkeeper called Davidov of Drinsk in Lithuania . |
| 9 | , Ahasuerus ( 1607–1693 ) , clock-maker , was baptized in the Dutch Reformed church at Norwich 25 February 1607 , the eldest of a family of five sons and two daughters of Mordecai Fromanteel , wood-turner , of Norwich , and his wife Leah . |
| 10 | , William Marcus Joseph ( 1798–1883 ) , member of Parliament , was born in Ireland 17 April 1797 or possibly in 1798 , after the death of his father , the youngest in the family of two sons and two daughters of Marcus Beresford , MP ( grandson of Sir Marcus Beresford , first Earl of Tyrone and counsel to the Irish revenue commissioners ) , and his wife Frances Arabella , daughter of Joseph Leeson , first Earl of Milltown . |
| 11 | , Abraham ( ‘ Bram ’ ) ( 1847–1912 ) , civil servant , theatre manager , barrister , and writer , was born in Dublin 8 November 1847 , the third child and second son in the family of five sons and two daughters of Abraham Stoker , a clerk in Dublin Castle , and his wife Charlotte , daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Thornley of the 43rd Regiment . |
| 12 | , Christian Augustus Henry ( 1806–1890 ) , chemical manufacturer , was born 2 December 1806 in Kiel , Germany , the fourth son in the family of five sons and two daughters of Carl Christian Allhusen , merchant of Kiel , and his wife Anna Margaretha Schroder . |
| 13 | , Henry ( 1876–1947 ) , engineer , was born 3 June 1876 at 36 Pilgrim Street , Tranmere , Liverpool , being the first of three sons and two daughters of Edwin Greenly , railway guard , and his wife Sophia , daughter of John Howard , the owner of a wood-turning factory in Newington Butts , south London . |
| 14 | , Edward ( 1803–1884 ) , collector and water-colourist , was born at Badger Hall , Shropshire , in 1803 , the second son in a family of three sons and two daughters of General Robert Cheyney and his wife Harriet , daughter of Ralph Carr of Dunston Hill , county Durham . |
| 15 | , Joseph Thomas ( 1782–1850 ) , industrialist , was baptized 1 May 1782 , the eldest child in the family of one son and two daughters of Joseph Austen of Plymouth , brewer and mayor , and his wife Susanna , daughter of William Esco Treffry of Place , Fowey , Cornwall . |
| 16 | , Joseph Dewar ( 1884–1977 ) , operatic tenor and teacher in the tradition of Francesco Lamperti , was born at 16 Bowmont Place , Edinburgh , 5 April 1884 , the second child in the family of two sons and two daughters of Joseph Dewar Hislop , painter and decorator , and his wife Mary White Lunn . |
| 17 | , Anne Batten ( b. 1769 ) , poet , was baptized 7 December 1769 in Penzance , the eldest child in the family of four sons and two daughters of Joseph Alexander Cristall of Arbroath in Scotland , a mariner and later sail- , mast- , and block-maker , and his wife Elizabeth , the daughter of John Batten , a Penzance merchant . |
| 18 | , William ( 1770–1813 ) , architect , was born 25 May 1770 in Dunfermline , Fife , one of the family of three sons and two daughters of Mark Stark of Kirkhill , Lasswade , Midlothian , a Glasgow merchant , who had established spinning and beetling mills , and his wife Margaret Paton . |
| 19 | , Sir David Lionel , second baronet ( 1851–1925 ) , electrical engineer and pioneer of the motor car , was born 28 June 1851 in Hove , Sussex , the eldest child in the family of two sons and two daughters of Philip Salomons , sheriff of Sussex , and his wife Emma , daughter of Jacob Montefiore of Sydney , New South Wales . |
| 20 | , George Ernest ( 1862–1920 ) , foreign correspondent and traveller , was born 4 February 1862 in Geelong , Australia , the second child and first son of the five sons and two daughters of Dr George Morrison , founder and principal of Geelong College , and his wife Rebecca Greenwood , from Yorkshire . |
| 21 | , Frank Plumpton ( 1903–1930 ) , mathematician and philosopher , was born in Cambridge 22 February 1903 , the eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Arthur Stanley Ramsey , president ( i.e. vice-master ) and mathematics tutor of Magdalene College , Cambridge , and his wife Agnes Mary Wilson . |
| 22 | , Christian Friedrich , Baron Stockmar ( 1787–1863 ) , adviser of Prince Albert , was born 22 August 1787 in Coburg of German parentage and Swedish descent , the eldest son and second child in the family of two sons and two daughters of Johann Ernest Gotthelf Stockmar , a scientific lawyer . |
| 23 | , Percy Sinclair ( 1867–1899 ) , aeronautical pioneer , was born in Bath 16 January 1867 , the youngest in the family of three sons and two daughters of Thomas Webb Pilcher , formerly curator of the British Museum picture gallery in Rome , and his second wife Sophia Robinson , a ‘ very young and energetic Scottish lady ’ . |
| 24 | , ( Egerton ) St John ( Pettifor ) ( 1890–1971 ) , social worker , was born in Leicester 22 August 1890 , the sixth child and fourth son in the family of five sons and two daughters of Thomas Kingham Catchpool , hosiery manufacturer , and his wife Florence Emma Pettifor . |
| 25 | , Sir Thomas Herbert ( 1887–1975 ) , Welsh scholar , poet , and essayist , was born in Rhyd-ddu , Caernarfonshire , 21 September 1887 , the second child and eldest son in the family of four sons and two daughters of Henry Parry-Williams , schoolmaster at Rhyd-ddu , and his wife Ann Morris . |
| 26 | , William Halse Rivers ( 1864–1922 ) , psychologist and anthropologist , was born 12 March 1864 in Luton , near Chatham , Kent , the eldest in the family of two sons and two daughters of Henry Frederick Rivers , curate , and his wife Elizabeth Hunt . |
| 27 | , William ( 1825–1904 ) , engineer and inventor , was born in Limehouse , London , 15 October 1823 , the second son and third in the family of three sons and two daughters of John Samuel Adams , clerk of works to the East India Dock Company , and his wife Jean Walker . |
| 28 | , Sir Edward ( ante 1495–1544 ) , courtier and patron of reform , was the eldest in the family of three sons and two daughters of John Baynton of Bromham , Wiltshire , and his wife Jane , daughter of Thomas Diggs of Kent . |
| 29 | , Frederic ( 1843–1916 ) , lawyer and biographer , was born 7 October 1843 in Larrigan , near Penzance , the youngest in the family of four sons and two daughters of John Josias Arthur Boase , banker , and his wife Charlotte , daughter of Robert Sholl . |
| 30 | , Ulick John de , first Marquess of Clanricarde ( 1802–1874 ) , politician , was born 20 December 1802 in Belmont , Hampshire , the only son and second child in the family of one son and two daughters of John Thomas de Burgh , thirteenth Earl of Clanricarde , army officer , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of Sir Thomas Burke , baronet , of Marble Hill , county Galway . |