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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.
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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 ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Sir William Gooch served as lieutenant governor of Virginia, the colony’s chief administrator at the time, from 1727 until 1749, and is the namesake of Goochland County. Born in England, Gooch served in the army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) and later during a Jacobite uprising in Scotland.
Sir William Gooch (gōōch), 1681–1751, colonial governor of Virginia (1727–49), b. Yarmouth, England. He came to Virginia after distinguished service with the British army. Nominally, Gooch was only lieutenant governor, but he was in fact the real chief executive in the colony for 22 years.
Gooch, Sir William go͞och [key], 1681–1751, colonial governor of Virginia (1727–49), b. Yarmouth, England. He came to Virginia after distinguished service with the British army.
Sir William Gooch (1681–1751) Primary Sources. Birth and death dates from funerary monument in Saint Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth, England, as printed in Henry Swinden, The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Burgh of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk (1772), 875.
Sir William Gooch was appointed the lieutenant governor of Virginia (1727-1749) after a successful military career in the British Army. He returned to England in 1749.
2 Percy Scott Flippin,’William Gooch: Successful Royal Governor of Virginia’, The William and Mary Quarterly 6 (1926), pp. 1-38; Stacy L. Lorenz, ‘Policy and Patronage: Governor William Gooch and Anglo-Virginia Politics, 1727-7149’, in N. L. Rhoden (eds.), English Atlantic Revisited: Essays Honouring Ian K. Steele, (Kingston: McGill-Queens’s Press, 2014), pp. 81-103; Stacy L. Lorenz, ‘“To Do Justice to his Majesty, the Merchant, and the Planter”: Governor William Gooch and ...
