Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr

Thomas West, 2nd and 11th Baron De La Warr (c. 1556 – 24 March 1601/1602) of Wherwell Abbey in the English county of Hampshire was a member of Elizabeth I's Privy Council and High Sheriff of Hampshire. Thomas was the only son of William West, 1st Baron De La Warr and Lady Elizabeth Strange. He succeeded his father, who had been created Baron De La Warr in 1597 by letters patent.

In 1597 he petitioned the House of Lords 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.

Marriage and children

On 19 November 1571 at Wherwell in Hampshire, he was married to Anne Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey, with whom he had thirteen children:

• Walsingham West, died young.
• Elizabeth West (Wherwell, Hampshire, 11 September 1573 - Valence, Dorset, 15 January 1632), born on 11 September and died on 12 January, married firstly in Wherwell, Hampshire, on 12 February 1593 Sir Herbert Pelham, Esq. and Knt., of Michelham (Bucksteep, Sussex, 1546 - Fordington, Dorset, 12 April 1620), already a widower with issue of Catherine Thatcher (Westham, Sussex, ca. 1550 - Bucksteep, Sussex, ca. 1593), whom he married in Westham, Sussex, ca. 1565, and had issue (ancestors of William Avery Rockefeller); and secondly Richard Saltonstall.
• Robert West (b. 1574), married Elizabeth Coks. Predeceased his father.
• Margarey West (b. 1576), married Samuel Johnson.
• Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618)source: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Source number: 718.000, married Lady Cicely Shirley.
• Lettice West (b. 1579), married Sir Henry Ludlow.
• Anne West (b. 1581), married John Pellet (Esq.).
• Penelope West (born Sussex, 9 September 1582), married in Warbleton, Suffolk, ca. 1599, Herbert Pelham, Esq. (born Warbleton, Suffolk, ca. 1580), stepson of her sister Elizabeth.
• Catherine West (b. 1583), married Nickolas Strelby.
• Francis West, Governor of Virginia (b. 1586-1634) Source: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22., married 1. Lady Margaret Reeves; 2. Lady Jane Davye; and 3. Lady Temperance Flowerdew *Helena West (b. 1587), married William Savage.
• John West, Governor of Virginia (1590–1659). It is said he married Anne Percy, daughter of George Percy, but this is debated.
• Nathaniel West (Lt. Col.) (1592-1623/1624), born on November 30 and died in Virginia, married Frances Greville.

Sources

• "The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Rountree, Helen C., University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
• "Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey: Diplomat and Suzeraine." W. Martha W. McCartney.
• "Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast by Peter H. Wood.

Peerage of England
Preceded by William West	Baron De La Warr 1595–1602	Succeeded by Thomas West