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Sir Francis Wyatt (b. 1588 – d. 1644) was an English nobleman and government official. He was the first royal governor of Virginia. Wyatt sailed for the New World ...
Acting Governor Francis West (1627–1629) Governor Sir John Harvey (1628–1639) Acting Governor John Pott (1629–1630) Acting Governor John West (1635–1636) Acting Governor Col. George Reade (1638–1639) Governor Sir Francis Wyatt (1639–1642) Governor Sir William Berkeley (1642–1652) Acting Governor Sir Richard Kemp (1644–1645)
From 1638 to 1639, Reade served in the post of Acting Governor of Virginia during Harvey's absence, and until Sir Francis Wyatt was appointed to succeed Harvey. [10] Reade worked closely with Richard Kemp who was the Secretary of the Virginia Colony, and he assumed the post in an acting capacity during Kemp's absence from 1640 until 1642.
It was created on 16 July 1909 for Sir George Truscott. He was Chairman of Brown, Knight & Truscott, Ltd, printers and stationers, and served as Lord Mayor of London from 1908 to 1909. Truscott was the son of Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott, Lord Mayor of London from 1879 to 1880. [2]
Sir William Stanley (1495) Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1586) (Babington Plot) T. William Thomas (1554) (Wyatt's rebellion) Chidiock Tichborne (1586) (Babington Plot) W. William Wallace (1305) Perkin Warbeck (1499) Sir Francis Weston (1536) Thomas Wintour or Winter (1605) (Gunpowder Plot) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1601) (Essex ...
Four years later, Claiborne was offered a position as a land surveyor in the new colony of Virginia, and arrived at Jamestown, on the north shore of the James River in October 1621, in the retinue of the colony's new governor, Sir Francis Wyatt. The position carried a 200-acre (80 hectare) land grant, a salary of £30 per year, a house and the ...
Soon after in 1623, the Governor, Sir Francis Wyatt, dictated that all men in the Virginia Militia must drill every month on their county court house green. He also appointed officers to lead the Militia for the first time.
An 1881 bust of Truscott by Charles Bell Birch at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London.. Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott (24 November 1824 – 3 March 1895) was Lord Mayor of London in 1879–80, a member of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and the father of George Wyatt Truscott, the Lord Mayor of London in 1908–09.