residence succeeded death_date birth_place office preceded order term_start spouse article_title term_end name
warwick county , virginia edward hill , sr. . march & ndash ; october 1655 england speaker of the virginia house of burgesses walter chiles 9th 1653 katherine gorsuch william whitby
 1653 william whitby
william whitby

william whitby -lrb- died march -- october 1655 -rrb- was a virginia politician and landowner .
he served as a burgess 1642 -- 44 , in the early stages of the english civil war , and again from 1652 -- 55 , after virginia surrendered to parliamentary control .
during the 1640s he was a justice of the warwick county court .
he served as speaker of the virginia house of burgesses in the 1653 session , following the one-day speakership of walter chiles .
