Frederick West

Frederick West (1767 – 22 March 1852) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1801 to 1806.

Early life West was the third son of Mary (née Wynyard), Countess De La Warr, and Lieutenant-General John West, 2nd Earl De La Warr, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Charlotte. His elder brothers were William West, 3rd Earl De La Warr, a Lt.-Col. in the Coldstream Guards and John West, 4th Earl De La Warr. He also had two sisters, Lady Georgiana West (the wife of Edward Pery Buckley and mother of Edward Pery Buckley, MP for Salisbury), and Lady Matilda West (the wife of Gen. Henry Wynyard, Commander-in-Chief, Scotland).

Career In 1801 he served as a councilman in Denbigh and in the same year was elected Member of Parliament for Denbigh Boroughs.

Frederick Richard West (1799–1862), an MP in Denbighshire who married Lady Georgiana Stanhope, a daughter of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Lady Henrietta Thynne (third daughter of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath), in 1820. After her death, he married, secondly, Theresa Whitby, daughter of Capt. John Whitby and Mary Anne Symonds.

Descendants Through his son Frederick, he was a grandfather of Georgiana Theresa Ella Cornwallis-West (d. 1915), the wife of Warren William Richard Peacocke, and William Cornwallis-West (1835–1917), also an MP in Denbighshire who married Mary Adelaide Virginia Eupatoria FitzPatrick (daughter of Rev. Frederick Fitzpatrick and Lady Olivia Taylour, a daughter of Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort).