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Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (21 October 1681 – 17 December 1751) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749. Technically, Gooch only held the title of Royal Lieutenant Governor, but the nominal governors, Lord Orkney and Lord Albemarle , were in England and did not ...
Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1741–1749) Acting Governor John Robinson Sr. died months after being sworn in as President {Acting Governor} August 1749; father of Speaker of the VA House of Burgess John Robinson (Virginia politician) Jr (1705–1766) and Colonel Beverley Robinson (1721–1792)
The county was named for Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet, [6] the royal lieutenant governor from 1727 to 1749. The nominal governor, the Earl of Albemarle , had remained in England. As acting royal governor , Gooch promoted settlement of the Virginia backcountry as a means to insulate the Virginia colony from Native American and New France ...
The Gooch Baronetcy of Benacre Hall, in the County of Suffolk, [2] was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 4 November 1746 for William Gooch, [3] Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749.
Colonel Patton, in a letter to Virginia Governor William Gooch dated 18 December, stated that a man bearing a white flag had been killed by the Indians and that eight or ten warriors had been killed and eleven militiamen, including Captain McDowell. Patton reports that he rode to the scene with twenty-three reinforcements, arriving two or three ...
The governor of Virginia is the state's head of government and commander-in-chief of the state's official national guard. The first Constitution of 1776 created the office of governor, to be elected annually by the Virginia State Legislature. The governor could serve up to three years at a time, and once out of office, could not serve again for ...
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When Governor William Gooch was recalled to England in 1749, Lee was the longest serving member and thus President of the King's Council of Virginia and Commander-in-Chief of the colony. Nominated for appointment as Governor of Virginia by King George II, he died before it took place. [13] [14]