WILLIAM MUNFORD, son of the above, was born in Mecklenburg County,
Va., in 1775, and died in Richmond, Va., June 21, 1825. At the age of
twenty-one he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. He was
afterwards a senator from his district, was elected a member of the
Privy Council of State, and continued in that office up to the time
of his death. His chief literary work was a _Translation of Homer's
Iliad_ in blank verse, which was not published during his life-time.
ALMORAN AND HAMET. A Tragedy. Published in a volume of _Poems and
Compositions in Prose on several occasions._ Richmond, 1798.
8vo, pp. 189, [1].