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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • English-born American colonial administrator chosen as the first governor of the Virginia Company colony. He arrived at Jamestown in 1610 in time to prevent the colonists from deserting the settlement.

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  • Public money funded new tracks for walkers and the repair of drystone walls; another £2.6m, via grants from Argyll and Bute council, Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund, is about to be spent on Rothesay's decrepit town centre; with any luck, £8m more will be found to restore the town's pavilion, which is the finest piece of 1930s modernism in Scotland, the northern equivalent of the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill.

    Could rebranding Bute as a middle-class holiday haven halt its decline? | Ian Jack 2011

  • Public money funded new tracks for walkers and the repair of drystone walls; another £2.6m, via grants from Argyll and Bute council, Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund, is about to be spent on Rothesay's decrepit town centre; with any luck, £8m more will be found to restore the town's pavilion, which is the finest piece of 1930s modernism in Scotland, the northern equivalent of the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill.

    Could rebranding Bute as a middle-class holiday haven halt its decline? | Ian Jack 2011

  • My vague recollection is that De La Warr was an anglicized version of the original name De La Guerre.

    Of the war... it lies red.... Ann Althouse 2009

  • Six of these narrate the story of the voyage of Gates and Somers, the misery in the plantation on the arrival of Gates and of De La Warr in 1610, and the steps that were taken to improve con - ditions.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • Killigrew, Sackville, Middlesex, and De La Warr, which were of so great importance in Virginia affairs, leads to the hope of a valuable collection of manuscripts.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • While the state - ments of De La Warr in his Relation are a bare outline of the conditions as he found them and the improvements in trade and discovery to which Captain Argall had contributed, together with his lordship's plans for the future, it is of value as forming, with Hamor's narrative four years later, a surprisingly accurate and satisfactory treatment of the development in the colony during those years.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • Then, too, the first written laws promulgated by Gates, De La Warr, and Dale in 1610 – 1612, martial in form and harsh in character, reveal the type of the plantation which the company now proposed;

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • These instructions to Gates and De La Warr afforded the authority for the termination of the previous govern - ment in Virginia, the stated ideas of the company as to locations for settlements, forts, and magazines, and concerning journeys inland.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • After the time of De La Warr the published accounts of the plans, movements, and successes of the colonists became more complete.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • It also holds out the promise of improved conditions under Gates and De La Warr, who are to be shortly sent to Virginia with a complete outfit of men and provisions.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

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