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About Peter Beverley
Peter Beverley was an English-born planter and lawyer who served as the 27th speaker of the House of Burgesses as well as treasurer of the Colony of Virginia (1710-1723). His father Robert Beverley had been the clerk of the House and a prominent member of the "Green Spring" faction in the decade after Bacon's Rebellion, and Peter Beverley also served as clerk before winning election as a Burgess and serving as speaker in four of the five assemblies at the beginning of the 18th century.
Everything about Peter Beverley →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1668
- Died
- 1728