Mrs Johnson Sirleaf inherited her light skin colour from her maternal grandfather, a German trader.
She liked to talk about her maternal grandfather who, she said, taught her classical philosophy.
My maternal grandfather is Scottish and I have always felt an affinity for Scotland and its people.
Some of what we're learning could be embarrassing to Rubio, like the tidbit that surfaced this week about his maternal grandfather.
My maternal grandfather came to Plymouth from Italy a century ago to work in what was then a bustling industrial center.
My maternal grandfather served in HMSAN in both world wars and had the misfortune to have his ship torpedoed in both.
Within families, red-green colorblindness typically travels from the maternal grandfather to grandson.
My genetic heritage had flaws: My father had a triple bypass at age 66 and my maternal grandfather died of a heart attack at age 56.
Their grandfather was a senator and a resident commissioner in the U.S. Their maternal grandfather served as secretary of public works and mayor of Baguio City.
The son and grandson of immigrants (his father was Hungarian, his maternal grandfather a Jew from Salonica), he advocated affirmative action to build ladders out of the banlieues.
His maternal grandfather was the first prime minister of Lebanon.
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As a young man in the 1970s, he repeatedly sought the counsel of a Hawaiian man named Frank Marshall Davis, whom he first met in 1970 through his maternal grandfather.
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