Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr

Thomas West
3rd Baron De La Warr
Portrait, c. 1605
Born	(1576-07-09)9 July 1576 England
Died	7 June 1618(1618-06-07) (aged 41) Atlantic Ocean, en route to Jamestown, Virginia, from London, England
Buried	Jamestown, Virginia
Nationality	English
Noble family	De La Warr
Spouse(s)	Cecilia Shirley, Lady De La Warr ​ ​ (m. 1596)​
Father	Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr
Mother	Anne Knollys

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (/ˈdɛləwɛər/ ^ⓘ DEL-ə-wair;^[1][2][3] 9 July 1576 – 7 June 1618), was an English nobleman, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named. A member of the House of Lords, from 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 Catherine Knollys; making him a great-grandson of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. He was born at Wherwell, Hampshire, England, and died at sea while travelling from England to Virginia. Counting from the original creation of the title, West would be the 12th Baron.^[4]