[George] French Strother (1730— July 3, 1800) was an eighteenth-century planter, politician, lawyer and judge in Virginia, nicknamed "the Fearless" for his fiery rhetoric during debates in the American Revolutionary War.
Born in King George County, Virginia in 1730, the eldest son of James Lawrence Strother and his wife, the former Margaret French.
Young French Strother moved to Falmouth, Virginia (across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg) with his parents as a boy when his father received a job inspecting tobacco for export from the area.
French Strother lived on a large estate on the Culpeper/Stevensburg Road, owned slaves, and served on the vestry of St. Mark's Parish.
[5] French Strother died, aged 70, in Fredericksburg on July 3, 1799, on his way home to Culpeper from the Virginia Senate session in Richmond.
[6] Several of French Strother's descendants served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil war, including C.S.A.