Philip Ludwell III moved to England in the 1760s, leaving his Virginia estates to be managed by agents. He was also given exceptional permission to continue to attend Anglican services in Virginia, since the dispensation recognized that "apart from the Province of Pennsylvania, all religions but Protestantism are banned." Although in declining health at the end of his life, Ludwell translated The Orthodox Confession of Peter Mogila, Metropolitan of Kiev, from Latin, and published this book in London in 1762. Philip Ludwell III was a Virginia planter and member of the colonial Council, born at Green Spring in James City County. Ludwell served in the House of Burgesses and later was appointed to the Council of Virginia, the governor's advisory body and upper house of the General Assembly. His daughters married into the Lee family and others of the Virginia gentry. He moved to England in the 1760s and died in London. He died in London, England, on March 25, 1767. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.