0 the grandfather of one of your parents:
The school graduates who remember my great-grandfather are now all grey-haired men, and approach me each with a red rose.
The children were thus given a roof over their heads by their great-grandfather, whose own frailty was also a cause for parish support.
Perhaps that was fortunate, because we all have a great-grandfather in the cupboard whom we can drag out to prove our credentials.
We had a great deal of trouble with a chemist who had lent money to my great-grandfather, and, not unreasonably, wanted some return on it.
Talking of posterity,1 have quite recently become a great-grandfather.
My great-grandfather built a school for a local hamlet, a small village, about six farms, a dozen cottages and a small pub.
When his great-grandfather owned the estate, the written contracts of all employees stated that they were to attend church.
It was my great-grandfather who started off the whole debate with which we are concerned today.
