Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr was an English colonial administrator for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named
c. 1605 portrait of De La Warr
Dramatized illustration of Lord De La Warr and soldiers entering James Fort through the south gate, 1610
Earl De La Warr
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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 in the Peerage of Gre
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
…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…
A portrait of John West, 4th Earl De La Warr