Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr
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Thomas West, 2nd and 11th Baron De La Warr ( ; c. 1550 – 24 March 1601/1602) of
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Biography

Thomas West was the eldest son of
William West, 1st Baron De La Warr William West, 1st Baron De La Warr ( ) of the second creation (c. 1530 – 30 December 1595) was the elder son of Sir George West (d.1538), second son of Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr, by his third wife, Eleanor Copley, and Elizabeth Morto ...
, by his first wife, Elizabeth Strange, the daughter of Thomas Strange of Chesterton,
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. He succeeded his father, who had been created
Baron De La Warr Earl De La Warr ( ) is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1761 for John West, 7th Baron De La Warr. The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount Cantelupe (1761) in the Peerage of Great Britain, Baron De La Warr ...
and died in 1595, by
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in 1597. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for
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in 1586 and for
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in 1593. He was knighted in 1587. It is probable, though uncertain, that he had previously represented Chichester in the 1571 Parliament and East Looe in the 1572 Parliament. From 1590 to his death he was one of the two Chamberlains of the Exchequer. In 1597 he petitioned the
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to have the precedence of the original barony, 1299, on the basis that he actually held the ancient peerage. After his claim was admitted, he sometimes referred to himself as 11th Baron.


Family

West married, on 19 November 1571,
Anne Knollys Anne West, Lady De La Warr (''née'' Knollys) (19 July 1555 – 30 August 1608) was a lady at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Biography Anne Knollys was the third daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of the Royal Household (1 ...
, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and
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, daughter of William Carey, esquire, by whom he had six sons and eight daughters: *Sir Robert West, who married, about 1592, Elizabeth Cocke, daughter of Henry Cocke of
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, and predeceased his father. After West's death, his widow married Sir Robert Oxenbridge.Oxenbridge, Sir Robert (1508/9-74), of Brede, Sussex, and Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire
Retrieved 17 September 2013. *
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ( ; 9 July 1577 – 7 June 1618), was an English merchant and politician, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named. He was ...
(7 July 1577 – c. February 1624), who married Cecily Shirley, youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley and Anne Kempe, daughter of Sir Thomas Kempe of
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. *Walsingham West. *
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(28 October 1586 – c.1634), esquire,
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, who emigrated to
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, and married firstly, before 6 February 1626, Margaret, widow of Edward Blayney, by whom he had a son, Francis West, and a daughter, Elizabeth West, and secondly, on 31 March 1628, Temperance Flowerdew (d. December 1628), widow of Sir George Yeardley,
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, daughter of Anthony Flowerdew of
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, by Martha Stanley. * John West (14 December 1590 – 1659),
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, and married Anne Percy, by whom he had one son, John West. *Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel West (30 November 1592 – 7 June 1618), who emigrated to
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, where in 1621 he married Frances Greville (d.1634), by whom he had a son, Nathaniel West. His widow married secondly Abraham Peirsey, esquire (d. 16 January 1628), and thirdly Captain Samuel Mathews, esquire (died c. March 1658). (Edit: Date of death or date of marriage is wrong.) *Elizabeth West (11 September 1573 – 15 January 1633), who married at
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, on 12 February 1594, as his second wife, Herbert Pelham (c.1546 – 12 April 1620), esquire, a widower with two sons and a daughter by his first wife, Katherine Thatcher, by whom she had three sons and six daughters. *Lettice West (b. 1579), who married Henry Ludlow. *Anne West (b. 13 February 1588), who married firstly, by licence dated 30 August 1608, John Pellatt (d. 22 October 1625), esquire, of
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, by whom she had three daughters; secondly Christopher Swale (d. 7 September 1645), by whom she had a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Elizabeth; and thirdly Leonard Lechford (died c. 29 November 1673), by whom she had no issue. *Penelope West (9 September 1582 – c.1619), who married, about 1599, as his first wife, Herbert Pelham (c.1580 – 13 July 1624)), esquire, of
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, stepson of Penelope West's elder sister, Elizabeth, by whom she had five sons and four daughters. *Katherine West (b. 1583), who married Nickolas Strelley of Nottinghamshire. *Helen West (b. 15 December 1587), who married Sir William Savage of
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, by whom she had a son, John Savage, and two daughters, Cecily and Anne. *Anne Hannah West (again) who married George Merriman (b. 1559) on 24 Aug 1610. *Elizabeth West (again), who married Sir Richard Saltonstall of Huntwick Grange, near
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