Member of the House of Burgesses for College of William and Mary
In office 1715 – not seated
Preceded by
position created
Succeeded by
John Custis
Member of the House of Burgesses for Gloucester County
In office 1700–1714
Serving with Mordecai Cook, James Ranson, Ambrose Dudley
Preceded by
James Ranson
Succeeded by
John Buckner
Personal details
Born
1663 (1663) Kingston on Hull, Yorkshire, England
Died
1728 (aged 59–60) WilliamsburgColony of Virginia, British America
Spouse
Elizabeth Peyton
Children
3
Relatives
Robert Beverley Jr. (brother) Peyton Randolph (grandson) Beverley Randolph (great-grandson)
Peter Beverley (1663 – 1728) 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).[1] 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.[2]
^John M. Hemphill II and Daphne Gentry, "Peter Beverley" in Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: Library of Virginia 1998) pp. 469-470
^Kukla, Jon (1981). Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643–1776. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0-88490-075-4.
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