Thomas Harwood

Thomas Harwood

5th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses
In office 1647–1649
Preceded by	Ambrose Harmer
Succeeded by	Edward Major
Personal details
Born	England
Died	1652 Virginia
Spouse(s)	Grace (1st)
Residence	Queen Hith Plantation, Warwick County, Virginia

Captain Thomas Harwood (died 1652) was a Virginia soldier, landowner and politician. He served multiple terms as a burgess in the 1630s and 1640s, and was "one of the chieff of the Mutinous Burgesses" who expelled Governor Sir John Harvey in 1635. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1647–49, and was named to the Council shortly before his death in 1652.^[1]

Notes

↑ Kukla, pp. 45-46

References

Kukla, Jon (1981). Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643–1776. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0-88490-075-4.

Speakers of the Virginia House of Burgesses

Stegg Hill Sr. Scarborough Harmer Harwood Major Dew Chiles Whitby Hill Sr. Moryson Smith Hill Sr. Bland Soane Wynne Warner Godwin Warner Travers Kemp Ballard Hill Jr. Kendall Allen Milner Ludwell Carter W. Randolph Carter Beverley Harrison Beverley McCarty Holloway J. Randolph Robinson P. Randolph

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