Wow - and what an ancestor to have 
Yes. Not sure whether I’m proud of him, or not…
This fellow’s grandfather was a Westminster divine tasked to write the commentaries on Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations. In 1619, he wrote the first known treatise on probability (Boswell called it “a learned book of the age”) which caused a great scandal at the time. His life’s work was a commentary on Marcus Aureleus that “stood alone for more than two centuries”, “a monument to 17thC classical scholarship.”
Alas, the smart genes have been watered down somewhat over the ensuing generations… 
Rubbish! Balderdash! Piffle! Stuff and nonsense! Tilly vally, and fie for shame!
Genius runs in your blood, Allen! My bloodline’s biggest claim to fame is a pregnant lady-in-waiting who was… ahem… discharged from her position and eventually moved to the States.
That and… ahem… a Madame. So I’d hate to think what runs in my family!