Benjamin Whitaker was surveyor general for the Province of South Carolina.
[1] He was initially deputy surveyor (under James St. John),[2] but rose to attorney general (1721–1731),[3] judge of the court of vice-admiralty (1727–1732 and 1732–1736),[4] speaker of the assembly (1742–1744)[5] and chief justice (1739–1749).
[6][7] He was removed from the role of chief justice for "being paralytic".
[9][10] Whitaker Street in Savannah, Georgia, is now named for him.
[12] She died on December 29, 1747, and was interred in St. Philip's Church Episcopal Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.