Minister's son
The minister's son is relatively rare in numbers (less than one in many tens of thousands), yet extraordinarily productive in accomplishment.
Some examples of minister's sons are:
- Niels Abel, one of the greatest mathematicians, son of a Norwegian pastor.
- Samuel Adams, son of the deacon Puritan deacon Samuel Adams, Sr.
- Alex Briley, chart-topping singer: a minister's son who learned to sing in church from an early age.
- Hugh Dennis, comedian and former agent for the Security Service, son of the bishop of St Edmundsbury
- William O. Douglas, longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former chairman of the SEC
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps the most famous American thinker and man of letters in the 19th century
- Leonhard Euler, the most prolific mathematician ever, son of a Calvinist pastor.
- Anthony Flew[1]
- James Gamble, co-founder of Procter & Gamble[2]
- Christian Goldbach, of Goldbach's conjecture in mathematics, was the son of a pastor in Prussia.
- Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip
- Sir Nigel Gresley, one of the greatest steam locomotive designers
- William Hamilton, Irish mathematician and biggest contributor of mathematics to physics since Isaac Newton, raised by his uncle the Reverend James Hamilton.
- Thomas Hobbes, author of the greatest work of political philosophy, Leviathan (1651).
- Samuel Morse, son of a Congregationalist minister who advocated Calvinism.[3]
- Isaac Newton, physicist, stepson of Anglican minister.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, son of a Lutheran pastor
- Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, son of a Congregational minister.
- Sir Laurence Olivier (Lord Olivier), classical actor.
- Paul, son of a Pharisee[4]
- J.C. Penney[5]
- Bernhard Riemann, mathematician, son of a Lutheran pastor.
- Anthony Sadler, an American hero who risked his life to stop a heavily armed terrorist on a train to Paris on August 21, 2015, which saved many lives.
- Boris Spassky, chess world champion (1969-1972) who is descended from the notable Russian Orthodox priest Vladimir Alexandrovich Spassky
- Kenneth Starr, prominent conservative judge, advocate, and Pepperdine law school dean.
- Nicola Tesla
- Justin Timberlake, singer and actor[6]
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin who obtained national attention for standing up to the government workers' unions.
- President Woodrow Wilson[7]
- Tim Westwood, well-known music journalist and motoring correspondent; son of the bishop of Peterborough.
- Ted Williams, son of an evangelical mother active in her church.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, perhaps the greatest architect ever.
- The Wright Brothers
Achievement is even higher among children of missionaries. According to the organization Campus Crusade for Christ:[8].
| “ | In a study listed in Who's Who, it took 5,000 Presbyterian ministers to produce one child listed in Who's Who. Among lawyers the ratio was 5,000 to 1; dentists 2,500 to 1. But for every seven Christian missionary families from the United States, one of their children would be listed in Who's Who. | ” |
Minister's grandson
- Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor ever.
Additional examples
- Gordon Brown, Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, son of a Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) minister.
- Captain William Kidd, pirate, hanged 1701, was the son of a Greenock minister.
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.adherents.com/people/pf/Anthony_Flew.html
- ↑ http://famousbrandnames.blogspot.com/2007/02/procter-gamble.html
- ↑ https://www.loc.gov/collections/samuel-morse-papers/articles-and-essays/collection-highlights/childhood-and-family-life/
- ↑ Acts 23:6
- ↑ http://famousbrandnames.blogspot.com/2007/02/jc-penneys.html
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005493/?ref_=nmls_hd
- ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DE1D61439EF32A25751C2A9629C946496D6CF
- ↑ http://www.wwcmagazine.org/1997/call.html