Thomas West Lord Governour and Captain General of the Virginia Colony | |
|---|---|
| 3rd Baron De La Warr | |
.jpg) Portrait, c. 1605 | |
| Born | 9 July 1576 England |
| Died | 7 June 1618 (aged 41) Atlantic Ocean, en route to Jamestown, Virginia, from London, England |
| Buried | Jamestown, Virginia |
| Noble family | De La Warr |
| Spouse(s) |
Cecilia Shirley, Lady De La Warr
(m. 1596) |
| Father | Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr |
| Mother | Anne Knollys |
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Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (/ˈdɛləwɛər/ DEL-ə-wair;[1][2][3] 9 July 1576 – 7 June 1618), was an English nobleman, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named. A member of the House of Lords, from the death of his father in 1602 until his own death in 1618, he served as the governor of Virginia from 1610 to 1611.
There have been two creations of Baron De La Warr, and West came from the second. He was the son of Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr, of Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire, and Anne Knollys, daughter of Catherine Knollys; making him a great-grandson of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. He was born at Wherwell, Hampshire, England, and died at sea while travelling from England to Virginia. Counting from the original creation of the title, West would be the 12th Baron.[4]
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