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Yeard⋅ley

[yahrd-lee]
–noun
(Sir) George, 1587?–1627, English colonial governor of Virginia 1619–21, 1626–27.
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Yeard·ley   (yärd'lē)   
English colonial administrator who as governor of Virginia (1619-1621 and 1626-1627) convoked the first representative assembly in the New World (1619).
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