Lord John Clayton II, Earl of Greystroke

Lord John Clayton II, Earl of Greystroke is the father of Tarzan (John Clayton III) in Edger Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes and it's associated novel series. John Clyton II is marooned with his wife Lady Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Countess of Greystroke off the coast of Africa in 1888. After an undisclosed amount of time marooned Lady Alice Clayton gives birth to John Clayton III and a year after dies of natural causes. Leaving John Clayton alone with a year old son. At somepoint Clayton's hunting caught the attention of a tribe, the Mangani, of near apes (described as something between Chimpanzees and Gorillas) who under thier unpredicable and ill tempred King Kerchak leads an asault upon Clayton and kill him where upon they stumble upon the young infant. A Mangani woman, Kala, protects the infant from Kerchak and raises John Clayton the Third as Tarzan (a Mangani word meaning "White Skin"). John Clayton the Third would not learn of his heritage till French Naval Officer Paul D'Arnot managed to, after investigating the cabin John and Alice had built, found evidience to prove Tarzan's true identity.