It was built in what was then Gravesend by Hendrick H. Wyckoff, whose forbear landed in New Amsterdam in 1637.
The cliff-side Mussenden Temple is a folly that was modelled on the Temple of Vesta in Rome and built for the Earl Bishop of Derry (one of Lord Bristol's eccentric forbears), in 1785.
And paradoxically, despite the persistent and growing emphasis on autonomy, most school practitioners consider themselves constrained by government requirements to a far greater extent than their forbears in 1975.
Written with real fountain pens in a looping, florid hand, it includes a few glorious footnotes about big-shot forbears in the English court and even forebears from Normandy.
At the end of the day, however, the characters we see in Silicon Valley aren't that different from their forbears in Office Space.
(In 52 AD, Saint Thomas visited southern India and planted the ancient church of Verghese's forbears; in 301 AD, Saint Gregory led my Armenian ancestors to embrace a similar Christian faith).
Toad is one of the greatest comic characters in English literature, worthy of comparison with his forbear Falstaff in his consistently hilarious combination of puffed-up arrogance, self-mythologising desire to rewrite history to show himself in the best light and, of course, spectacular gluttony.
Now their grandsons are doing it with "making a change" in mind, but where their colonialist forbears stayed in India, the modern generation return to their comfy homes in Leamington Spa.
In January he said Muslims who paid for their passports had more right to be in Australia than Anglo Saxons, whose forbears arrived in "shackles".
They need little enough excuse to do it, and the only connection between their censorship and the war on terror is that their Western friends might be more inclined than usual to forbear from criticism in case they offend an ally in the war.
