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	European Explorers: Sir Humphrey Gilbert
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583) was an English nobleman, Army officer, member of Parliament, and explorer.
		Humphrey Gilbert was one of the strongest proponents of such a project.
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the founder of the first English colony in North America, was born about 1539, the son of a Devonshire gentleman, whose widow afterward married the father of Sir Walter Raleigh.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /CITE/exgilbert.htm (375 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Gilbert was deeply involved with Sidney in planning a large-scale settlement of Ulster by Devonshire gentlemen and their dependents and in making colonizing proposals for Munster.
		Gilbert himself concentrated on mobilizing the townsmen and gentry of the south and southwest of England — the town of Southampton was awarded a monopoly of trade from the colony — promising some of them land and others trading rights.
		On 5 August Sir Humphrey Gilbert formally took possession of Newfoundland and of the land 200 leagues to the north and south (i.e., from approximately 37°35’N to 57°35’N).
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34374 (4176 words)

	Humphrey Gilbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gilbert was second son of Otho and Katherine Gilbert of Compton and Greenway Estate, Devonshire.
		It was assumed that Gilbert would be appointed president of Munster after the dismissal of Ormond as lord lieutenant of the province in the spring of 1581.
		Gilbert was father to Ralegh Gilbert, who was to become second in command of Popham Colony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humphrey_Gilbert (2556 words)

	Humphrey Gilbert
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539 - 1583) was Sir Walter Raleigh's half brother.
		In 1566 he presented A Discourcs of a Discoveries for a new Passage to Cataia to Queen Elizabeth I of England, to gain royal patronage for voyages of exploration to China (Cataia) by sailing in a Northwest direction, via an anticipated "Northwest Passage".
		Gilbert set up the Society of the New Art[?] with Lord Burghley and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester who had their alchemical laboratory in Limehouse.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hu/Humphrey_Gilbert.html (295 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert - LoveToKnow 1911
		1539-1583), English soldier, navigator and pioneer colonist in America, was the second son of Otho Gilbert, of Compton, near Dartmouth, Devon, and stepbrother of Sir Walter Raleigh.
		He was educated at Eton and Oxford; intended for the law; introduced at court by Raleigh's aunt, Catherine Ashley, and appointed (July 1566) captain in the army of Ireland under Sir Henry Sidney.
		Gilbert's arguments, widely circulated even before 1575, were apparently of weight in promoting the Frobisher enterprises of 1576-1578.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Humphrey_Gilbert (268 words)

	Civilization.ca - Voyages of Martin Frobisher - Humphrey Gilbert
		Humphrey Gilbert was one of the strongest proponents of such a project.
		In 1566, Humphrey Gilbert approached Queen Elizabeth with a proposal for a multi-year voyage to search for this new route to Asia.
		Gilbert and his backers sought the right to govern any newly discovered lands, on behalf of the Queen, and a monopoly on trade there.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/frobisher/frsub02e.html (287 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert - MSN Encarta
		A half brother, on his mother's side, of Sir Walter Raleigh, Gilbert was born near Dartmouth about 1539; he was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford.
		Gilbert spent the period from 1572 to 1578 in retirement, mainly engaged in writing.
		Gilbert and Raleigh fitted out an expedition the same year, but their ships were dispersed by the Spanish off the coast of Africa, and they were forced to return.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570188/Gilbert_Sir_Humphrey.html (358 words)

	European Explorers: Sir Humphrey Gilbert
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583) was an English nobleman, Army officer, member of Parliament, and explorer.
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the founder of the first English colony in North America, was born about 1539, the son of a Devonshire gentleman, whose widow afterward married the father of Sir Walter Raleigh.
		On June 11, 1578, Sir Humphrey Gilbert obtained from Queen Elizabeth a charter to discover and colonize "remote heathen and barbarous lands" not actually possessed by any Christian prince.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/exgilbert.htm (383 words)

	Gilbert, Sir Humphrey - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gilbert, Sir Humphrey 1537?-1583, English soldier, navigator, and explorer; half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh.
		In 1578, Gilbert was granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth I to found colonies in America and other lands.
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland: Part II.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gilberth1.html (371 words)

	Explorers: SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert was born in Dartmouth England in 1539 but sadly, he became lost at sea in 1584.
		Gilbert's started his first expedition in 1581 but with one of his vessels being destroyed, he returned to port with this and his other ships, also damaged.
		Gilbert pushed the Portuguese off the island who had settled there and then published statutes that explained the religion the country should follow.
	www.latinartmall.com /blogs/explore/2006/02/sir-humphrey-gilbert.html (542 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Born in Devon, England in 1539, he’s the half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh.
		Humphrey’s lifelong goal was to take a voyage in search of the Northwest Passage to Cathay.
		Sir Walter furnished the biggest vessel in 1583.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/Exp/shg/shg1.htm (127 words)

	The Genealogy of Sir W. S. Gilbert, Dramatist and Poet
		Thomas Gilbert, the eldest son in the foregoing Thomas and Dennis Gilbert's family of ten children, was baptized at Shipton on the 10 December 1628.
		Thomas Gilbert was buried at Shipton Bellinger on the 13 November 1697, and, at a Court of the Manor held six days later, his death was presented and Thomas Gilbert, his son, admitted to the said copyhold.
		Thomas Gilbert, the eldest son of the above Henry and Mary Gilbert, was born at Newton Tony on the 1 October 1714.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/other_gilbert/html/gilbert_genealogy.html (2852 words)

	§7. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. IV. The Literature of the Sea. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He compared it with the tables of Ortelius and sundry other cosmographical maps and charts, and said it was approved by the learned Dr. Dee, whose house at Mortlake was the seat of astronomical and nautical knowledge.
		To Gilbert, the continent of America was an island representing the Atlantis of Plato and of other writers of antiquity.
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s tract remains amongst the most notable literary contributions to the subject of exploration which preceded the publication of the monumental work of Hakluyt.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/214/0407.html (413 words)

	Humphrey Gilbert Biography
		Sir Humphrey Gilert was most likely born in 1539, in Greenway, Brixham, although there is some doubt to this date.
		Gilbert was Knighted in 1570, by the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney.
		Sir Humphrey Gilert died in 1583, after his ship sank in the sea.
	www.paralumun.com /exgilbert.htm (62 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert
		GILBERT, Sir Humphrey, English navigator, born in Dartmouth, England, in 1539; lost at sea, 10 September, 1584.
		Gilbert arrived at the coast of Newfoundland after several narrow escapes from storms and icebergs.
		Sir Humphrey's vessel went down in a storm off the Azores while on the course to England.
	famousamericans.net /sirhumphreygilbert (570 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland. Paras. 1-49. Edward Haies. 1909-14. Voyages and Travels: Ancient ...
		The reason of the bullet sealed was to keep secret that watchword while we were upon our own coast, lest any of the company stealing from the fleet might bewray the same; which known to an enemy, he might board us by night without mistrust, having our own watchword.
		Yet further and actually to establish this possession taken in the right of her Majesty, and to the behoof of Sir Humfrey Gilbert, knight, his heirs and assigns for ever, the General granted in fee-farm divers parcels of land lying by the water-side, both in this harbour of St.
		John, and elsewhere, which was to the owners a great commodity, being thereby assured, by their proper inheritance, of grounds convenient to dress and to dry their fish; whereof many times before they did fail, being prevented by them that came first into the harbour.
	www.bartleby.com /33/61.html (4288 words)

	Roanoke Revisited - Heritage Education Program - Fort Raleigh National Historic Site - National Park Service - Cape ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Almost bounded by Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe in 1580 and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the first phase of English colonizing efforts in the New World was initiated by Sir Humphrey Gilbert and continued by his half-brother Sir Walter Ralegh.
		Gilbert, after an aborted voyage in 1578, took possession of Newfoundland in 1583, but was lost at sea on his return to England.
		Sir Richard Grenville transported the first settlers to the coast of modern North Carolina, made preliminary explorations of the area, put Ralph Lane in charge of the colony, and returned to England for supplies, capturing prize ships along the way.
	www.nps.gov /fora/roanokerev.htm (2171 words)

	Free Essays - Sir Humphrey Gilbert
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert born 1537, son of a Devon shire gentleman, who’s widow later married the father of Sir Walter Raleigh, Gilberts half brother, which was a British explorer, poet, historian and soldier.
		Gilbert was a soldier, navigator and explorer and was founder of the first English colony in North America.
		Gilbert was sure on a northern passage which went threw the Artic, Canada, and along the northern coast of Alaska between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
	www.freeessays.tv /b1695.htm (343 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert--Voyages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s first voyage left Dartmouth in 1578.
		Sir Humphrey went to northern Canada in 1578 to find the Northwest Passage.
		Later, his half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, carried out the plan to establish a colony for England in the New World.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/Exp/shg/shg3.htm (229 words)

	Sir Humphrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert was a navigator, explorer, English soldier and half brother to Sir Walter Raleigh.
		Gilbert was knighted in 1570 for his service in the Netherlands.
		Gilbert thought that America was the lost continent of Atlantis.
	www.iss.k12.nc.us /schools/lakenorman/gilbert.htm (309 words)

	Humphrey GILBERT (Sir)
		Gilbert also served in Munster, Ireland, where in 1570 he was knighted by the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney.
		Sir Humphrey was to sail as Admiral in the Anne Archer, while Raleigh captained the Falcon with Simon Fernandez as master.
		Married in 1570 to Anne Aucker, whose father and grandfather had fought in the final defense of Calais, Gilbert was the father of two sons - John and Raleigh - who with his brothers Adrian Gilbert and Walter Raleigh continued the family involvement in the exploration and colonization of the New World.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/HumphreyGilbert(Sir).htm (1048 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert
		Ralegh Gilbert continued the colonizing efforts of the family and in 1606 was one of eight grantees who received Letters Patent from King James I. This grant provided for two colonies the London Colony and the Plymouth Colony.
		And in 1621 Ralegh Gilbert was a member of the Council of England for the Plymouth colony.
		In the 20th century, Greenway, the birthplace of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, was the home of the mystery writer Agatha Christie, a close friend of the Gilbert family.
	www.nps.gov /fora/gilbert.htm (1048 words)

	Gilbert, sir alfred
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		Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934), Sculptor and goldsmith National Portrait Gallery, list of portraits for Sir Alfred Gilbert including Thomas Carlyle by Sir Alfred Gilbert, Sir Alfred Gilbert by John McLure...
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	gilbert-sir.topo20.org (1201 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert
		1539 Sir Humphrey Gilbert was born in Compton in Devonshire
		1566: Sir Humphrey Gilbert completed a treatise, the title of which, when later revised, was “A discourse of a discoverie for a new passage to Cataia” to prove the existence of a northwest passage
		1578: Queen Elizabeth granted Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to discover and settle new English colonies "to inhabit and possess all remote and heathen lands".
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /sir-humphrey-gilbert.htm (578 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Edward Haies: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland, 1583
		In the August of that year he took possession of the harbor of St. John and founded his colony, but on the return voyage he went down with his ship in a storm south of the Azores.
		The plan did not progress as he hoped; but after long delays, and under far other impulses than Gilbert ever thought of, much of his dream was realized.
		Reason accompanied with necessity persuaded the captain,who sent his lawful excuse and cause of this sudden departure unto Sir John Gilbert, by the boat of Dartmouth, and from thence the Golden Hind departed and took harbour at Weymouth.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1585haies-gilbert.html (7125 words)

	A Timeline of Events and References
		Humphrey Gilbert sailed for America with 350 men but was forced to return.
		Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland and his ship was lost on the return voyage.
		Sir Walter Raleigh sent Samuel Mace of Weymouth on a voyage to Virginia (North Carolina) to gather plant materials and to search for survivors of the Lost Colony.
	www.apva.org /history/timeline.html (1925 words)

	Humphrey Gilbert
		Humphrey Gilbert was a noted English navigator, soldier and explorer of the early Elizabethan Age.
		Gilbert was educated at Eton and Oxford, but chose military service over a more settled profession.
		Gilbert’s wish was granted in 1578, when he and Raleigh received a charter to explore North America.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1131.html (463 words)

	Sir Humphrey Gilbert: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
		Early in his career, Gilbert started English settlements in Ireland (to try to stop the Irish rebellion) and, much later, sailed to North America in search of a Northwest Passage (a sea route to Asia through North America).
		Gilbert is said to have believed that America was the lost continent of Atlantis (a legendary but fictional continent that is said to have sunk in ancient times).
		Gilbert claimed the area for Queen Elizabeth I of England, and started a colony.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/g/gilbert.shtml (287 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He went to sea as a boy, and spent much of his youth in the African trade.
		He later gained the friendship of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, through whom he became interested in the Northwest Passage.
		Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1554?-1618, English soldier, explorer, courtier, and man of letters.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articlesnew/05093.html (438 words)

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