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).
[2] While in Parliament, West gave a silent support to administration; he was initially listed as doubtful, then as a friend of William Pitt's government in 1804 and 1805, opposing Samuel Whitbread's censure of Viscount Melville on 8 April 1805.
In 1806, he was ousted from Parliament by his brother-in-law, Robert Myddelton Biddulph, who had married his wife's elder sister.
In 1813, he applied to Queen Charlotte (who felt "a sincere regard" for him, his father having been "one of her earliest and most faithful servants")[2] for "an Irish barony of the title of Myddelton chiefly with a view to give weight to that interest in the county of Denbigh which has been devoted to the support of his Majesty's government", although nothing came of it.
[1] 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.