Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr

Born

July 9, 1577

Died

June 7, 1618 (aged 40)

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. 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.

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