Gov. Thomas WEST

1577 - 1618  (40 years)

• Name	Thomas WEST  [1, 2, 3]
  	Thomas, who was the 3rd Lord De la Warr, matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 9 Mar 1591/2 and received his A.M. 20 Aug 1605. Sir Thomas was Member of Parliament for Lymington in 1597/8. Thomas West followed Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex to Ireland in 1599, distinguishing himself in action near Arklow and was knighted by Essex at Dublin. he adhered to Essex even during the revolt of 1601 and was imprisoned in the Wood Street counter. Sir Thomas was lucky to be granted the liberty of the prison before the end of February and to be sent to his father's house a month latger on giving a bond of L2,000. Sir Thomas appeared before the Privy Council on 28 Apr 1601, and again in the following month, at which time he was fined 1,000 marks but escaped indictment. he succeeded to his father's title and to estates in Sussex and Hampshire within a year of his release. There was some difficulty about his entering into possession, and in May 1602 Sir Thomas Shirley petitioned Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury that the Queen would grant West "those things which his father enjoyed.. for the young gentleman is left in a most broken estate." West described himself as "the poorest baron of this kingdom" in a letter to Cecil, which led him to go to Virginia. he arrived at Jamestown in July 1609, the expedition being just in tine to save the colonists from starvation, and was the first Lord Governor and Captain General of Virginia from 28 Feb 1609/10. It was while on another voyage to Virginia that West died at sea 7 June 1618. Administration of his property was granted on 1 July 1620 to his widow. His eldest son, Henry, aged 14, succeeded. He immigrated in June 1610 to Jamestown on the ship "De la Warr". [1]
  Prefix	Gov.
  Birth	9 Jul 1577	Wherwell, co. Hamps   [1]
  Christening	14 Jul 1577	Wherwell, co. Hamps   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Died on a return trip from England to take up his post as governor of Virginia   [2]
  Fact	3rd Lord Delaware (De La Warre)   [2]
  Fact 2	1597/8	Member of Parliament   [2]
  Fact	1605	Queen's College, Oxford   [2]
  Fact 1	28 Feb 1609/10	first Lord Governor and Captain General of Virginia   [2, 3]
  Death	7 Jun 1618	Port La Have, Nova Scotia   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I80570	Main Tree
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Sir Thomas WEST,   b. Abt 1556, Wherwell, co. Hamps d. 24 Mar 1601/2, Salisbury, co. Wilts (Age 46 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Lady Anne KNOLLYS,   b. 19 Jul 1555, Rotherfield Greys, co. Oxon d. 30 Aug 1608, Salisbury, co. Wilts (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	19 Nov 1571  [2, 3]
  Family ID	F29520	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cecily SHIRLEY,   b. Abt 1579, Wiston, co. Sussex d. Jul 1662, Compton Valence, co. Dorset (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	25 Nov 1602	St. Dunstain's in the West, Fleet Street, London   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Henry WEST,   b. 3 Oct 1603, Wherwell, co. Hamps d. 1 Jun 1628, England (Age 24 years)  [Birth] + 2. Elizabeth WEST,   b. 1609, Wherwell, co. Hamps d. 1639, Islewort, Ileworth (Age 30 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F32454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - - Died on a return trip from England to take up his post as governor of Virginia Fact 2 - 1597/8 - Member of Parliament Fact - 1605 - Queen's College, Oxford Fact 1 - 28 Feb 1609/10 - first Lord Governor and Captain General of Virginia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S11979] Marston Watson, Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry Vol. IV Pelham-Avery-West. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).