Thomas Richard West 3rd Baron De La Warr ^{1 2}

  Research Notes:

First governor of the Virginia colony.

From Wikipedia "Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr":
"Thomas West, 3rd and 12th Baron De La Warr (9 July 1577 - 7 June 1618) was the Englishman after whom the bay , the river , and, consequently, an American Indian people and U.S. state , all later called "Delaware ", were named. "De La Warr" is pronounced "Delaware".[1]
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 his wife, Anne daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey ."

  Death Notes:

Died on a voyage to Virginia aboard the Neptune off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Thomas married Cecily Shirley, daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley and Anne Kempe, on 25 Nov 1596 in St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London, Middlesex, England. (Cecily Shirley was born in 1581 in Winston, Sussex, England and died on 31 Jul 1662 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England.)