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    Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of...
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    CCGS Sir Humphrey Gilbert is a former Canadian Coast Guard light icebreaker and buoy tender that was later sold to a private owner and renamed Polar Prince...
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  • Humphrey Gilbert (1539–1583) was an English adventurer, colonialist and MP at the court of Elizabeth I. Humphrey Gilbert may also refer to: Humphrey Gilbert...
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    & Sons of Bideford, North Devon. They were named MV Adrian Gilbert and MV Humphrey Gilbert, after two famous local explorers from Greenway House. In 1972...
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    of explorer, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, sinks in a storm with all hands along with all but one of Gilbert's colonial expedition. Gilbert and his men had been...
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  • Humphrey Gilbert-Carter (1884–1969) was a British botanist and the first scientific director of the Cambridge Botanic Garden (1921–1950), being succeeded...
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    and Catherine Champernowne. He was the younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. Little is known of his early...
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    was on station until the two replacement ferries, the Adrian Gilbert and Humphrey Gilbert, were ready to enter service on 18 March 1957. In 1972 the ferry...
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    Empire, and the expansion of the English Empire. The group included Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Richard...
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    and sluggishly crawling ships." (lines 117–29 of Ora Maritima). Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed to have encountered a lion-like monster with "glaring eyes"...
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    was the aunt of Catherine Champernowne, who was the mother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert from her first marriage and Walter Raleigh by her second marriage....
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  • Humphrey Adam Gilbert (2 June 1886 – 19 July 1960) was an Indian-born English first-class cricketer who played in 118 matches. All of these were in England...
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    Newfoundland in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage. On 5 August 1583, Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland as England's first overseas colony under Royal...
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    knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588. Sir Humphrey Gilbert was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford, and involved...
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    meaning 'South Munster'. In addition to the scorched earth policy, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Warham St Leger, Perrot and later Nicholas Malby and Lord Grey and...
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  • Kingdom (1910) George VI of the United Kingdom (1911) as Prince Albert Humphrey Gilbert (1933) Wilfred Grenfell (1941) John Guy (1910) Harry George Hawker...
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    It followed failed attempts at settlement on Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 and the Roanoke Colony (in modern eastern North Carolina) by...
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    being claimed by John Cabot for King Henry VII, and again by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583. It gradually acquired European settlement, and in 1825 was...
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    the Newfound Lands of expeditions conducted by English explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who notes that explorers in North America "doe testifie that they...
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  • Commons from 1857 to 1874 Humphrey J. Desmond (1858–1932), American politician, writer, lawyer, and newspaper editor Humphrey Gilbert (1539–1583), English...
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  • the Queen of England. In 1578 Fernandes entered the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later Sir Walter Raleigh, piloting the failed 1587 expedition to...
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    around 1521, and older Portuguese settlements may have existed. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, provided with letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I, landed in St...
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  • with Englishmen”. Most famous among these were the half brothers Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh, both famous explorers of the New World and...
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    a patent for overseas exploration to his half-brother Humphrey Gilbert, and that year Gilbert sailed for the West Indies to engage in piracy and to establish...
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  • Drake claims New Albion. 1583: England formally claims Newfoundland (Humphrey Gilbert). 1585: Roanoke Colony founded by English on Roanoke Island, North...
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    Limehouse Cut connects the Basin to the River Lea in the east. Sir Humphrey Gilbert lived here, and was an advocate of opening up the Northwest Passage...
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    model of Squirrel, the ship in which Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed to Newfoundland (The crest of the Gilbert family is A squirrel sejant on a hill vert...
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  • sailing ship that ran aground off Sable Island, while she was on Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition with HMS Squirrel to Newfoundland in North America. Delight...
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    a cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh and the privateer and explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Grenville's birthplace is believed to have been at Bideford. His father...
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  • circumnavigation. 1578 11 June – Humphrey Gilbert is granted letters patent to establish a colony in North America. 19 November – Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh...
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