Other, : , was educated at William and Mary College, and was a member of all the assemblies from 1756 to 1776, and of all the revolutionary conventions of 1774, 1775 and 1776. He was a member of the committee of nine appointed by the house of burgesses in November, 1764, to draw up remonstances against the Stamp Act proposed by Lord Grenville, but with pendleton, Bland, Wythe, Harrison and other leading patriots voted in May, 1765, against the resolutions of Patrick Henry, deeming them premature and unfair to the British governmane. In 1773 he was a member of the committee of correspondence. In the convention of May, 1776, he had the honor to be chairman of the committee of the whole which reported, on the 15th of the month, the celebrated instructions to the Virginia delegates in the Continental Congrss for independence. He was first speaker of the senate in 1776 and remained its presiding officer till his death