Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr

Thomas West was the eldest son of William West, 1st Baron De La Warr, by his first wife, Elizabeth Strange, the daughter of Thomas Strange of Chesterton, Gloucestershire.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|pp=324-5}} He succeeded his father, who had been created Baron De La Warr and died in 1595, by letters patent in 1597.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight in 1586 and for Aylesbury in 1593. He was knighted in 1587. It is probable, though uncertain, that he had previously represented Chichester in the 1571 Parliament and East Looe in the 1572 Parliament. {{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/west-thomas-ii-1550-1602|title=WEST, Thomas II (c.1550-1602), of Offington, Suss. and Wherwell, Hants.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date= 8 October 2016}}

From 1590 to his death he was one of the two Chamberlains of the Exchequer.

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.

West married, on 19 November 1571, Anne Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey, daughter of William Carey, esquire, by whom he had six sons and eight daughters:{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|pp=325-9}}

• Sir Robert West, who married, about 1592, Elizabeth Cocke, daughter of Henry Cocke of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, and predeceased his father. After West's death, his widow married Sir Robert Oxenbridge.[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/west-robert-1574-94 West, Robert (c.1574-94), of the Inner Temple, London, History of Parliament] Retrieved 17 September 2013.[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/cocke-henry-1538-1610 Cocke, Henry (1538-1610), of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, History of Parliament] Retrieved 17 September 2013.[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/oxenbridge-sir-robert-15089-74 Oxenbridge, Sir Robert (1508/9-74), of Brede, Sussex, and Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire] Retrieved 17 September 2013.
• Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (7 July 1577 – c. February 1624), who married Cecily Shirley, youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley and Anne Kempe, daughter of Sir Thomas Kempe of Olantigh, Kent.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=326}}
• Walsingham West.
• Francis West (28 October 1586 – c.1634), esquire, Governor of Virginia, who emigrated to Virginia, and married firstly, before 6 February 1626, Margaret, widow of Edward Blayney, by whom he had a son, Francis West, and a daughter, Elizabeth West, and secondly, on 31 March 1628, Temperance Flowerdew (d. December 1628), widow of Sir George Yeardley, Governor of Virginia, daughter of Anthony Flowerdew of Hethersett, Norfolk, by Martha Stanley.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=328}}
• John West (14 December 1590 – 1659), Governor of Virginia, who emigrated to Virginia, and married Anne Percy,{{sfn|Brenan|1902|p=208–9}} by whom he had one son, John West.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|pp=328-9}}
• Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel West (30 November 1592 – 7 June 1618), who emigrated to Virginia, where in 1621 he married Frances Greville (d.1634), by whom he had a son, Nathaniel West. His widow married secondly Abraham Peirsey, esquire (d. 16 January 1628), and thirdly Captain Samuel Mathews, esquire (died c. March 1658).{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=329}} (Edit: Date of death or date of marriage is wrong.)
• Elizabeth West (11 September 1573 – 15 January 1633), who married firstly at Wherwell, Hampshire, on 12 February 1594, as his second wife, Sir Herbert Pelham of Michelham (Bucksteep, Sussex, 1546 – Fordington, Dorset, 12 April 1620), Esquire, a widower with two sons and one daughter by his first wife, Katherine Thatcher (1550 - West Ham, Sussex, 1550 - Worcester, Worcestershire, 1593), by whom she had three sons and six daughters.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=329}}
• Lettice West (b. 1579),{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} who married Henry Ludlow.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}
• Anne West (b. 13 February 1588), who married firstly, by licence dated 30 August 1608, John Pellatt (d. 22 October 1625), esquire, of Bolney, Sussex, by whom she had three daughters; secondly Christopher Swale (d. 7 September 1645), by whom she had a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Elizabeth; and thirdly Leonard Lechford (died c. 29 November 1673), by whom she had no issue.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=328}}
• Penelope West (9 September 1582 – c.1619), who married, about 1599, as his first wife, Herbert Pelham (c.1580 – 13 July 1624)), esquire, of Hastings, Sussex, stepson of Penelope West's elder sister, Elizabeth, by whom she had five sons and four daughters.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=327}}
• Katherine West (b. 1583),{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} who married Nickolas Strelley of Nottinghamshire.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}
• Helen West (b. 15 December 1587), who married Sir William Savage of Winchester, Hampshire, by whom she had a son, John Savage, and two daughters, Cecily and Anne.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=328}}
• Anne Hannah West (again) who married George Merriman (b. 1559) on 24 Aug 1610.
• Elizabeth West (again), who married as his second wife Sir Richard Saltonstall of Huntwick Grange, near Nostell, Yorkshire.{{sfn|Richardson IV|2011|p=329}}

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