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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.
Fauquier was remembered to have been a pupil of Bethune, then bishop of Toronto, and he was rejected by the laity. John Philip DuMoulin, rector of St Thomas’ Church, Hamilton, was elected, but after the synod had dispersed he declined the honour.
- F. A. Peake
- FAUQUIER, FREDERICK DAWSON
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 11
Fauquier County was established on May 1, 1759, from Prince William County. It is named for Francis Fauquier , [ 5 ] Lieutenant Governor of Virginia at the time, who won the land in a poker game, according to legend.
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.
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
Francis Fauquier, the lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1758 until his death in 1768, is the subject of this portrait by the English artist Benjamin Wilson.
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