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3 days ago · Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warr (born July 9, 1577—died June 7, 1618, at sea off the coast of Virginia or New England) was one of the English founders of Virginia, for whom Delaware Bay, the Delaware River, and the state of Delaware were named.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · While the ships of the Third Supply were marooned on Bermuda, the Virginia Company appointed Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, as Governor. The company outfitted him with a small fleet, supplies, and colonists, and sent him to Jamestown.
- Randal Rust
5 days ago · However, later generations evidently remained influential with John Greneley (c.1495) made a Commissioner of the King's Peace under King Henry VIII in February 1509, alongside other Sussex patricians including Thomas Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr, and Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre.
3 days ago · In 1526 it was leased to Sir Edward Bray, and in 1527 to Thomas West, Lord de la Warr. After 1533 it was leased, like the rectory, to members of the Bishop and Curzon families, except in the mid 17th century when John Alford was lessee. In 1844-5 the estate comprised 229 a.
5 days ago · In the early 16th century Thomas West, Lord de la Warr (d. 1525), lived at Ewhurst before settling at Offington, and the house included a chapel in 1536. Another Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, on his death in 1554 left furniture in the great chamber there, but the house
2 days ago · Thomas West, ninth lord de la Warr, succeeded his father 1525; K.G. 1549. He was buried at Broadwater, co. Sussex, where his tomb remains, and is described in Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, p. 38.
19 hours ago · Delaware was named after Delaware Bay, which in turn derived its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618), the first governor of the Colony of Virginia. The Delaware people, a name used by Europeans for Lenape people Indigenous to the Delaware Valley, also derive their name from the same source.
