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A portrait of Spencer, artist unknown. Colonel Nicholas Spencer, Jr. (1633–1689) was a merchant, planter and politician in colonial Virginia.Born in Cople, Bedfordshire, Spencer migrated to the Westmoreland County, Virginia, where he became a planter and which he twice briefly represented in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Richard Lee (1726–1795), known most commonly as "Squire", was a prominent Virginia planter, and American politician, who was active in the American Revolutionary War.He represented Westmoreland County Virginia continuously (but on a part-time basis) in the Virginia General Assembly from 1757 (when the lower house was known as the House of Burgesses, through the five Virginia Revolutionary ...
Colonel Edward Hill (d. c. 1662) was a Virginia planter, soldier and politician. In addition to representing Charles City County for many terms in the House of Burgesses, fellow members three times selected him as its Speaker (1644–45, 1654–55, and 1659), and he sat in the Virginia General Assembly's upper house, the Virginia Governor's Council in 1651 as well as from 1660 to 1663.
Colonel Thomas Lee (c. 1690 – November 14, 1750) was a planter and politician in colonial Virginia, and a member of the Lee family, a political dynasty.Lee became involved in politics in 1710, serving in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and also held important positions as Naval Officer for the Northern Potomac Region and agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary.
During the interregnum period (1649–1660), when England came under commonwealth rule and the protectorate rule of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, those governments appointed Virginia's governors. William Berkeley , who was governor at the time of the execution of King Charles I , remained in office until the arrival of a Commonwealth fleet in ...
Sir William Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l iː /; 1605 – 9 July 1677) was an English colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1660 to 1677. One of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, as governor of Virginia he implemented policies that bred dissent among the colonists and sparked Bacon's Rebellion.
Richard Lawrence Member of the House of Burgesses for James City County In office June 1676 Preceded by Edward Ramsey Succeeded by Edward Hill Personal details Born England Died Colony of Virginia Resting place unknown Spouse Dorothy Education Oxford University Richard Lawrence (before 1640 – after December 1676) was an Oxford University graduate who emigrated to the Virginia colony where ...
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, only son of Richard; Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss, first daughter of Richard; Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Grenville, second son of Mary, succeeded their childless brother Richard; Mary Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss, first daughter of Luis