The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-01
WEST, f. +. V. VIII.

Io-day we must retrace our steps
and place West with waters. etc"
in F. T. V. No. VII.
West" unlike most of the +. F.
VS., OF which we have treated was a
great family we'll known in England
before 1t touched Virginias shores. 1t
touched Virginia in the person of Lord
Delaware. who saved the colony OF
Virginia in 1910.
Hungry, naked and disconsolate. the
little colony of jamestown begged
Gates and Somers. just arrived from
the Rermudas, TO take II home 10 Eng
land, and Gates and Somers. staggered
by the wretchedness of Virginias white
population. agreed TO do so; but here
comes Delaware sweeping up the
James" and the Colony of Virginia.
England's eldest daughter, is saved.
This Lord Delaware was Thomas West.
John West, his brother, came TO Vir-
ginia in 1918, and resided there until
l659-60. He was n member OF the
Virginia Company in 1909, and mem
Der of our House of Burgesses IN 1929
30, and member of the Council from
1851 until he died o
He Governor from 1886 TO jan
uary. 1887 and in 1887 was sent to
England to stand trial for connection
with Governor Harveys deposition; but
nothing seems to have come of It.
/ He married Anne, and had one child.
John West (2). He was granted 1000
acrec OF land in consideration of his
/
| Chiscayack This John West % took
UP immense tracts of land. At the
session of the Assembly, March. 1863
so. this order was passed: Whereas,
the many important favors and SER
vices rendered TO the countrcy of Vir-
gina by the noble family OF the Vests,
predecessors to Mr.. John West, their
now only survivor, claim at least a
grateful remembrance of their former
merits be still continued TO their sur
ViNnr iS that 10 1eNieS of
the said Master West and his family
be rcmitted and he be exempted from
payment thereof during life" Glen
ing /. $40
Point; he sat on the court-martial dur
ing Bacon's Rebellion. He married
Ursula. daughter of Major Joseph Gro
shaw. and left John 90, Nathaniel 90.
Thomas go and Anne (3), who married
Henry ca Fox. From these four Vests
descend Ayletts. Claibornes. Dandridgcs,
Henrys and many another notable
family. John West. founder OF Sec
ton of +. +. V. Will came from Sir
Thomas West knight, who lived In the
reign of Edward H.. and was in high
favor with that monarch. He married
Alianore, daughter and heiress OF ST.
John de Cantlupe, OF Hempston Can't
lupe. in the County OF Devon. by whom
he obtained the manor of Snitertield,
in Warwick shire.
Sir Thomas was subsequently sum-
moned TO Parliament as Baron West
G342), and served in the wars of Ed
ward III. He had Thomas, who fought
at Cressy. and married Alice. dauGh-
ter of Reginald FitZ-Piers. Baron OF
Wolverly. He had Sir Thomas. who
married Ida. daughter of Almaric.
Baron of St. Amand He had no issue.
and was succeeded by his brother.
Reginald fifth Baron West, who was
summoned to Parliament on the death
of his uncle, Thomas Lord La War;.
as Lord La War;. He was succeeded
by his son, Sir Richard. who was sum
moned to Parliament as the seventh
Lord DE La War;.
He married Catherine, daughter of
Lord Hungerford. He was succeeded
by his eldest son, Thomas eighth Lord
De La War;. He married Elizabeth.
timer Hall, and had Sir Thomas. ninth
baron, and Sir George. Sir Thomas
had no tissue. and the title and estates
went 10 his nephew, William. son of
Sir George. and Sir William West mar
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Strange, OF Chesterton, and had
Thomas, who married Anne, daughter
of Sir Francis Knoiles, * c., apd had
Thomas and John. Thomas was Gov
ernor and Captain General of Virginia.
and John was the founder of f. +. V.
No. VIII.
1rcOTSc JOnn w est, lSCOunl AnntI-
lupe and Baron Delaware, who died
some years since and was succeeded
by the present earl. George John Fred
erick West. was the father OF Lionel
Sackville West. who was British am
bassador to the United States not so
very long ago.
West arms: Quarterly first and
fourth--ar a Jesse dancettee 50 for
West second and third GU. a lion ram
pant Alarmed and langucd" az. be-
tween eight cross-crosslcts. ftchee. In
orle. of the second for DE La Ware
crest out OF a ducal coronet or n grif-
fins head az. ears and bcalt gold.
Supporters: Dexter wolf, coward
ar. gorged with plain collar; sinister
"a cockatrice or Swallowed and scaled
az Over the supporters two badges.
dexter crampet or the insdes per
pale az. and gu, charged with text
hand of the first: sinister. a rose, per
pale. ar. and gu. seeded. or barbcd
vert.
Motto: Jour de ma vie.
Town residence. Ia upper Grosvenor
Street. Seat, Bowm Hall, Caxton, Cam
bridgeshire.