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The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

* 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician ( b. 1577 )

* 1577 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ( d. 1618 )

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* June 7 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia ( b. 1577 )

* June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates ' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (" Delaware ") at Mulberry Island.

** Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr ( d. 1525 )

* August 17 – Thomas West, 1st Baron West ( b. 1335 )

* July 9 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English governor of Virginia ( d. 1618 )

** Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr ( d. 1554 )

* March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr ( b. 1430 )

* August 27 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician ( b. 1395 )

* Thomas West, 2nd Baron West ( d. 1415 )

* September 7 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician ( d. 1427 )

* October 28 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician ( d. 1475 )

It is named after the Delaware River, which was named in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, appointed governor of Virginia in 1609.

In the 1632 Charter of Maryland, King Charles I of England granted " all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West, divided from the Residue thereof by a Right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Head-Land, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the Bay aforesaid, near the river Wigloo, on the West, unto the main Ocean on the East ; and between that Boundary on the South, unto that Part of the Bay of Delaware on the North, which lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Equinoctial, where New England is terminated " to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore as the colony of Maryland.

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Probably the best-known explanation holds that when an early group of Jamestown colonists left to return to England after the Starving Time during the winter of 1609 – 1610 aboard a ship of Captain Christopher Newport, they encountered another fleet of supply ships under the new Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr in the James River off Mulberry Island with reinforcements of men and supplies.

Delaware County lies in the river and bay drainage area named " Delaware " in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, Governor of the nearby English colony of Virginia.

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.

There have been two creations of Baron De La Warr, and West came from the second.

In 1863 Palmerston elevated him to the peerage as Baron Houghton, of Great Houghton in the West Riding of the County of York.

He was born at Kirby Wiske, a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, near Northallerton, the third son of John Ascham, steward to Baron Scrope of Bolton.

In 1884 he was created of Baron Herries, Carleverock Castle in the County of Dumfries and of Everingham in the East Riding of the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

In 1911 he was created Baron Mountgarret, of Nidd in the West Riding of the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

In 1897 he was created Baron Dawnay, of Danby in the North Riding of the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

His grandson, the fifth Baron, sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Richmond and served as Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Lord Feversham son, the second Baron, sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Yorkshire and the North Riding of Yorkshire.

The Honourable Octavius Duncombe, younger son of the first Baron, represented the North Riding of Yorkshire in Parliament.

Baron Grimthorpe, of Grimthorpe in the East Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Derwent, of Hackness in the North Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Londesborough, of Londesborough in the East Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

His son, the second Baron, also represented Hull West in Parliament as a Liberal and served as Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire between 1908 and 1924.

Baron Netherthorpe, of Anston in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Crathorne, of Crathorne in the North Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

He had already been created a baronet, of Crathorne in the North Riding of the County of York, in 1945. the titles are held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1977.

Baron Calverley, of the City of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The third creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1954 when the Conservative politician Richard Law was made Baron Coleraine, of Haltemprice in the East Riding of the County of York.

Baron Leconfield, of Leconfield in the East Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Airedale, of Gledhow in the West Riding of the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Allerton, of Chapel Allerton in the West Riding of the County of Yorkshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The latter had been raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Houghton, of Great Houghton in the West Riding of the County of York, in 1863.

He was knighted in 1895 and in 1910 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Furness, of Grantley in the West Riding of the County of Yorkshire.

Prior to the establishment of the Poor Law Union, almost every aspect of local governance had been shared between three authorities ; the Justices of the Peace for the West Riding in their Quarter or Special sessions ; the Parish of Royston ( until 1843 ) and its Vestry, and the Manor of Cudworth with its Court Baron and Court Leet.

The third creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1868 when William Ernest Duncombe, 3rd Baron Feversham, was made Viscount Helmsley, of Helmsley in the North Riding of the County of York, and Earl of Feversham, of Ryedale in the North Riding of the County of York.