Robert West, MP

Robert West was never knighted, but was briefly a Member of Parliament (probably through family political connections). http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/we...

Robert West was the son of Sir Thomas West, 2nd Baron de la Warr and wife Anne Knollys. He was born 3 Jan 1575 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England1574, and predeceased his father, which means he died before 1601. [1594, per History of Parliament Online.]

It is often reported that he married Elizabeth Coks (or Cox or Cock). This may be an error.[It apparently isn't.] His nephew Robert West, son of Thomas West III, is also reported as marrying a lady of the same name. See http://thepeerage.com/p24497.htm.

Biography

Biography
West’s father had presumably enough influence in Hampshire to prevail upon the dean and chapter of Winchester, owners of the parliamentary patronage at Whitchurch, to have him returned there, but it is also possible that the Earl of Essex may have intervened. Both West’s father and his younger brother Thomas were close to Essex, and it is inconceivable that Robert would not have come under his influence. However it came about, West was an MP while still a student at the Inner Temple, where he had been specially admitted at the request of his father-in-law, and granted permission to build a chamber on White Friars Wall. It was from here that his body was carried on 8 June 1594 to be buried in St. Dunstan-in-the-West.2

Links to additional material:

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg203...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West,_2nd_Baron_De_La_Warr
• Individual Record FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 - Search Results Robert WEST (AFN:

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