Francis Fauquier (1703 – 3 March 1768) was a British colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1758 to 1768. Born in England to a Huguenot family, he emigrated to the British colony of Virginia to take up of the office of lieutenant governor.

2024年8月26日 · Francis Fauquier served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1758 until his death in 1768 and during the terms of two absentee governors, John Campbell, fourth earl of Loudoun, and Sir Jeffery Amherst. Born and educated in London, Fauquier was influential in business and the arts before coming to Virginia.

Writing from Fort Loudoun, Virginia, on June 17, 1758, Colonel George Washington honored Francis Fauquier with best wishes for a successful tenure as the new lieutenant governor of the Colony of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson later deemed Fauquier "the ablest man" to …

The Official Papers of Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1758–1768 (1980–1983), with biography in 1:xxxv–xlviii. Return to biography on Encyclopedia Virginia.

The erudite and enlightened Francis Fauquier was Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1758 to 1768 as colonial leaders formed opposition to Parliament's authority to enact the Stamp and Townshend acts.

2022年11月5日 · Francis Fauquier (1703 – 3 March 1768) was a Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Colony (in what is today the United States), and served as acting governor from 1758 until his death in 1768.

FAUQUIER, FRANCIS (1704?–1768), financial writer, lieutenant-governor of Virginia, was the eldest son of Dr. John Francis Fauquier, one of the directors of the Bank of England, who died 22 Sept. 1726 ( Hist. Reg. for 1726, p. 37).

Francis Fauquier (fôkēr´), c.1704–1768, acting royal governor of Virginia (1758–68). He came to the colony as lieutenant governor in 1758, and in the absence of the governors—the earl of Loudon (1756–63) and Jeffery Amherst (1763–68)—he was the chief administrative officer.

2002年2月5日 · Fauquier arrived in the colonial capital to begin his ten years as lieutenant governor of Virginia on 5 June. This was the day that GW left Martha Custis’s house in New Kent County on his return to Fort Loudoun from Williamsburg. For GW’s mission to Williamsburg, see particularly GW to Adam Stephen, 24 May 1758, n.2. 2 .

Fauquier, Francis fôkērˈ [key], c.1704–1768, acting royal governor of Virginia (1758–68). He came to the colony as lieutenant governor in 1758, and in the absence of the governors—the earl of Loudon (1756–63) and Jeffery Amherst (1763–68)—he was the chief administrative officer.