William Brenton was a colonial English statesman who served as colonial President, Deputy Governor, and Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and an early settler of Portsmouth and Newport in the Rhode Island colony. Believed to be from Hammersmith, Middlesex, England, he emigrated to the British Colonies in North America by 1633, and rose to minor prominence in the Massachusetts Bay Colony before relocating to a new settlement to the south that became today's Rhode Island.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- colonial governor of Rhode Island, President of colonial Rhode Island
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1700
