Col. Philip Ludwell

  Notes:

Of Greenspring, James City county, an associate of the Council.

Philip Ludwell Lee struts across the stage of Stratford, the Lee family home in Virginia's Northern Neck. He transformed the simple, austere plantation of his parents into an elegant estate, stories of which even now evoke the lavish and graceful lifestyle of the elite of pre-Revolutionary Virginia. Under his ownership, the main house complex was modernized and expanded, the waterfront developed, and a stud farm was begun. Philip Ludwell took his pleasures as seriously as his commerce. While he lived, Stratford was filled with the melodic strains of the violin and the laughter of guests dancing in the Great Hall. The stable bays were full of fine horses for races and hunts. And Col. Phil, master of Stratford, presided over it all. In the colony, Philip Ludwell Lee served as judge, officer in the militia, elected official in the House of Burgesses, and member of the governing Council of Virginia. Although arrogant, selfish, and willful, Philip Ludwell was also loving, generous, and playful. Yet he has remained an enigma.

Educated at Eton.

Philip married Hannah Harrison. (Hannah Harrison was born on 15 Dec 1678 in Indian Fields, Virginia and died on 4 Apr 1731.)