John Randolph (politician)

He was a Speaker of the House of Burgesses, an Attorney General for the Colony of Virginia, and the youngest son of William Randolph and Mary Isham.

[1] Randolph was born in Charles City County, Virginia.

[3] Randolph later reflected, "I should have been an atheist if it had not been for one recollection—and that was the memory of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers and cause me on my knees to say, 'Our Father who art in heaven.

[1] Randolph was the only native of Colonial Virginia to receive a knighthood.

Together, the couple lived at Tazewell Hall,[7] and had at least four children who reached adulthood:[8][9] He died in 1737 and was interred at the chapel of the Wren Building at the College of William & Mary.