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21-548: Thomas , Tom , or Tommy West may refer to: Nobility [ edit ] Thomas West, 1st Baron West (1365–1405) Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (1391/2–1416) Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr (c. 1457–1525), courtier and military commander Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr (c. 1475–1554) Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr (c. 1556–1602), MP for Aylesbury, member of Elizabeth I's Privy Council Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618), Englishman after whom Delaware

42-618: A daughter of Richard Savery of Totnes) by his wife Joane Rashleigh, a daughter of John Rashleigh of Foye in Cornwall. William II Martin married twice and had progeny by each wife: firstly to Anne Huckmore (d.1616) daughter of Richard Huckmore of Berry Pomeroy; secondly to his cousin Dorothie Savery, a daughter of Christopher savery, Mayor of Totnes in 1593 and Sheriff of Devon in 1620. In the year 1618 Robert Gunsley, Rector of Titsey in Surrey, gave

63-682: A major Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror . His tenant was Hamelin of Devonshire and Cornwall. It was situated within Haytor hundred . In the Book of Fees (pre-1302) it was held by William III de Cantilupe (d.1254), feudal baron of Totnes in Devon seated at Totnes Castle about 4 miles south of Broadhempston, and feudal baron of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire, either in-chief from

84-479: The Duke of Aumale in 1399, and attended Richard's young Queen Isabella of Valois homeward to Calais in 1401. When West was seventeen, he and his mother and sister Eleanor were assaulted and robbed, by Sir Nicholas de Clifton , who carried his sister off; he was probably the same Nicholas de Clifton who later married her. West was knighted in 1399, and summoned to Parliament as Baron West in 1402, by which time he held

105-632: The honour of Mortain or from the Earldom of Cornwall . From this family's name the manor gained a suffix to become Hempston Cauntelow , as did several other manors in England, for example Aston Cantlow in Warwickshire. The church of Broad Hempston was given by William de Cantilupe to Studley Priory in Warwickshire (of which the Cantilupe family were patrons), to whom the great tithes were appropriated. He

126-561: The Braose lands, including a moiety of the feudal baron of Totnes. The male line died out on the death of George de Cantilupe (1252–1273) Lord of Abergavenny (son of William III de Cantilupe (d.1254)), whose two sisters were heirs to most of his lands, including the feudal baron of Totnes, but not seemingly to Hempston, which according to Pole (d.1635), descended to Eleanor Cantilupe, great-niece of William III de Cantilupe (d.1254). Risdon (d.1640) states that Eleanor Cantilupe's grandfather

147-1213: The Florida Supreme Court Thomas G. West (born 1945), American professor of politics Thomas West (American politician) (born 1964), American politician in the Ohio House of Representatives Tom West (Kansas politician) (1925–1975), American politician in the Kansas state legislature T. C. West (1868–1936), American lawyer and member of the California State Senate Sports [ edit ] Tommy West (baseball) , American baseball manager (active 1937–46) in 1942 St. Louis Cardinals season Tommy West (American football) (born 1954), American football coach Tom West (rugby union) (born 1996), English rugby union player Others [ edit ] Thomas West (priest) (1720–1779), Scottish priest, author, and antiquarian Thomas James West (1855–1916), English-born theatre entrepreneur Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), British chemist Tom West (1939–2011), American technologist and protagonist of

168-468: The Pulitzer–winning non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine Tommy West (producer) (1942–2021), American music executive W. Thomas West (born 1943), U.S. Air Force general [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

189-414: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_West&oldid=1230610341 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas West, 1st Baron West Thomas West, 1st Baron West (1365 – 19 April 1405)

210-732: The manor of Harby, Nottinghamshire . He inherited the manor of Newton Tony , Wiltshire , from his father, and the manors of Midsomer Norton , Somerset , and Hinton Martell , Dorset , from his mother. He was later granted joint custody of Beaulieu Abbey . He died in 1405 and was interred alongside his mother at Christchurch Priory, Dorset . West married, before 2 May 1384, Joan La Warre, widow of Ralph de Wilington (d. 16 August 1382) of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire , and daughter of Roger la Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr (d. 27 August 1370), and his second wife, Eleanor Mowbray, daughter of John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray , by Joan of Lancaster , daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster . Joan la Warre

231-613: The manor to the Rowe family. The family is today represented by the Sackville family (until 1871 "Sackville-West") of Buckhurst Park, Sussex , Baron De la Warr, Viscount Cantelupe, Baron Buckhurst and Earl De La Warr , which quarters the arms of Cantilupe in the second quarter. Hempston was purchased from the West family by John Rowe (1509-1592) of Kingston in the parish of Staverton , Devon, whose monumental brass survives at Staverton Church. He

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252-445: The parsonage of Broad Hempston, with all lands and tithes thereto belonging, to the towns of Rochester and Maidstone in Kent , specifying that a moiety of the produce was to be distributed in bread, among the poor of the several parishes of each town. It was sold by the Rowe family (sic, Risdon) to Joseph Champion (d. pre-1779) of Northleigh House. A deed dated 1779 survives recording

273-597: The sale by his four children of lands in Broadhempston to Sir John Duntze, 1st Baronet , catalogued as follows: Broadhempston was purchased from the Champion family by Sir John Duntze, 1st Baronet ( c.  1735 – 1795) of Rockbeare, near Exeter, a Member of Parliament for Tiverton from 1768 until his death in 1795. He was the son (by his English wife from Devon) of an immigrant merchant from Bremen in Germany, and

294-565: The venerable Winchester family. Sir Thomas West (d.1386) had fought in the Battle of Crécy and the subsequent siege of Calais under the command of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel . The younger Thomas almost certainly served alongside his father under King Richard II ; one of them was in active service in Calais in 1386, the year of his father's death. A knight banneret , he served in Ireland with

315-606: Was "John de Cantalupe, a younger son of the Lord Cantalupe, (who) was made baron of Hempston and called to Parliament in King Edward I's age, who had issue Nicholas Lord Cantalupe of Hempston, whose daughter Eleanor being married unto Sir Thomas West, brought his inheritance into that family" . Eleanor Cantilupe, heiress of Hempston, married Sir Thomas West (1251-1344) and Hempston became the inheritance of their descendants, created Barons De La Warr . A later Baron De la Warre sold

336-574: Was a half sister of John la Warr, 4th Baron De La Warr , and when he died without issue she became heiress to her younger half-brother, Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr . They had three sons and a daughter: Hempston Cauntelow The manor is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hamistone (later called Hempston Cantilupe, later Broad Hempston), the 43rd of the 79 Devonshire holdings of Robert, Count of Mortain , 2nd Earl of Cornwall ( c.  1031 –1090) uterine half-brother and

357-445: Was an English nobleman and member of parliament. He was the only son of Sir Thomas West (1321–3 September 1386 ) of Hempston Cauntelow in Devon (named after its lords the Cantilupe family whose heiress Eleanor de Cantelowe married Sir Thomas West (1251–1344)), by his wife Alice FitzHerbert (died 1395), a sister and co-heiress of Sir Edmund FitzHerbert, both children of Sir Reynold Fitzherbert of Midsomer Norton , Somerset, members of

378-704: Was buried at Broad Hempston Church. Giles Hussey had inherited an ancient family estate in Dorset, which he bequeathed to his nephew Mr. Rowe of Bearton, who in compliance with the bequest adopted the surname Hussey. In 1822 Bearton was the property of his widow, and was occupied as a farm-house. As recorded in the Heraldic Visitation of Devon in 1620, the occupant in 1620 was William II Martin "of Hempston Cauntelow" son and heir of William I Martin (d.1610) of Totnes (son and heir of Thomas Martin (d.1588) of Salisbury, Wiltshire, Mayor of Totnes by his wife Christiana Savery,

399-474: Was named Politics and law [ edit ] Thomas West (MP for Lymington) (died 1618), Member of Parliament (MP) for Lymington Thomas West (MP died 1622) , English politician; MP for Chichester, Mitchell and Hampshire Thomas West (Australian politician) (1830–1896), New South Wales politician Thomas West (captain) , a planter, military officer and politician in colonial Virginia Thomas F. West (1874–1931), American lawyer; Chief Justice of

420-494: Was the son and heir of John Rowe (d. 1544) of Kingston, serjeant-at-law . It remained a possession of the Rowe family for several generations. A branch of the Rowe family lived at Bearton, within the parish of Broad Hempston, for nearly two and a half centuries. Giles Hussey (1710–1788), the artist who adopted the theory of drawing his portraits according to musical or harmonic proportion, resided some years at Bearton with his nephew Mr. Rowe (d. pre-1822) and died there in 1788 and

441-540: Was the son and heir of William II de Cantilupe (d.1251) by his wife Millicent ( alias Maud) de Gournai, daughter of Hugh de Gournai and widow of Amaury de Montfort (d.1210/13), Earl of Gloucester and Count of Évreux. In 1238 William II de Cantilupe was granted the wardship and marriage of Eva de Braose (d.1255), one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose (d.1230), Lord of Abergavenny and feudal baron of Totnes. He thus married off Eva de Braose to his son William III de Cantilupe (d.1254), who thereby inherited

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