William Munford (1775–1825), public official, author, and court reporter, was born in Mecklenburg County and attended the College of William and Mary, 1790–94, where he studied law under George Wythe and St. George Tucker. He represented his home county in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1797–98 and 1800–02, and sat in the Senate of Virginia, 1802–06. With his election in 1806 to the Virginia Council of State, Munford relocated permanently to Richmond. In 1811 he left the Council to become clerk of the House of Delegates, an office he held until his death. During his lengthy public career, he also wrote poetry and a play, published ten volumes of decisions of the Virginia Court of Appeals between 1807 and 1821 (the first four as coeditor with William W. Hening), and translated Homer’s Iliad into blank verse. Munford died in Richmond (ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ; DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; William and Mary Provisional List description begins A Provisional List of Alumni, Grammar School Students, Members of the Faculty, and Members of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. From 1693 to 1888, 1941 description ends , 29; Leonard, General Assembly; Munford, Poems and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions [Richmond, 1798]; Va. Reports description begins Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, 1798–  (title varies; originally issued in distinct editions of separately numbered volumes with Va. Reports volume numbers retroactively assigned; original volume numbers here given parenthetically) description ends , vols. 11–20; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 2093; Richmond Enquirer, 24 June 1825).