Augustine Warner Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Augustine Warner Sr.

English planter and politician

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1610

Place of Birth: Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1674

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Augustine Warner, Sr.
(September 28, 1611 – December 24, 1674), was an English-born Virginia planter and politician.
The progenitor of a prominent colonial family, and great-great grandfather of President George Washington, he was born in Norwich, Norfolk, the son of Thomas Warner and Elizabeth Sotherton.
Augustine arrived in Virginia in 1628 at the age of seventeen, one of a group of thirty-four settlers brought in by Adam Thoroughgood.
His first land acquisition came seven years later, when he patented 250 acres (1,000,000 m2). Continuing the typical pattern of 17th-century success in colonial Virginia as a merchant, landowner, and politician, he rose through the hierarchy to become a member of the House of Burgesses in 1652 and then in 1659 a member of the King's Council, which he held until his death.
About 1657, he moved across the York River to Gloucester County, where he settled and built the first house at Warner Hall.Augustine Warner died in 1674, at sixty-three, and was succeeded at Warner Hall by his only son, Augustine Warner, Jr.
(1642–1681).
After his English education in London and at Cambridge, the younger Warner returned to Virginia, and by 1666 became a member of the House of Burgesses, and then Speaker of the House in 1676.
In 1677 he took his seat on the King's Council, but his career was cut short by his early death in 1681 at the age of thirty-nine.