Through his son Robert , he was a grandfather of another prominent New York jurist and attorney general , Richard Stockton Emmet ( himself the father of Richard S. Emmet Jr. ) , and great-grandfather of the notable American portrait artist sisters Rosina Emmet Sherwood , Lydia Field Emmet and Jane Emmet de Glehn , as well as their first cousin Ellen Emmet Rand . Rosina 's twin brother was West Point graduate and Medal of Honor winner Robert Temple Emmet . He is the great-great-grandfather of the playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood . His direct descendant , French human rights lawyer Valentin Ribet , died aged 26 in the terrorist attack on the Bataclan in Paris on Friday 13 November 2015
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November 2015 Paris attacks
Thomas Addis Emmet