Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
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Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (
c.1537–83). A half‐brother of
Ralegh, Gilbert was able to get official support for his interests in overseas activities. After service in Ireland, and as an MP, he was knighted and began expeditions with a patent from the queen to plant colonies in North America. A venture in concert with Ralegh in 1578–9 apparently failed, but in 1583 Gilbert annexed
Newfoundland, though no settlers were left. He and his ship were lost on the return voyage.
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Warfare in Elizabethan Ireland: Michael Morrogh shows that Renaissance men like Sir Walter Ralegh had a decidedly darker side.(THE UNPREDICTABLE PAST)
Magazine article from: History Review; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...opportunity arose for summary punishment it was not avoided. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Ralegh's half brother, shocked even English commentators...Renaissance men were poets, of course, as well as warriors. Sir Philip Sidney served only briefly in Ireland before...
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'Mummers' extend the holiday season
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 1/7/2002; ; 658 words
; ...its way to Newfoundland in the late 17th century. "Sir Humphrey Gilbert introduced it on his voyage to Newfoundland in 1683...entertain the inhabitants of the island and his own crew, Sir Gilbert brought English mummering garb with him on his voyage...
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Raleigh's romance, rivals and venture at roanoke
Newspaper article from: Express & Echo (Exeter UK); 11/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...another plan his half-brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert had to colonise North America. In 1580, to attract finance, Sir Humphrey offered huge hypothetical stakes...Queen was sceptical, saying that Gilbert was "a man not noted for good...
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Raleigh's Ireland gamble reaps right Royal return
Newspaper article from: Express & Echo (Exeter UK); 11/2/2007; 700+ words
; ...half-brother Humphrey Gilbert, who had followed up...from Queen Elizabeth. Humphrey was also fascinated by...his eldest brother, Sir John Gilbert, Vice-Admiral of Devon...exploration. In 1578, Sir Humphrey managed to pass on his...
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Elizabeth's life and times.(400th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth I; chronology 1520 to 1604)(Chronology)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...Accession of Mary (July 19th). 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion (Jan...in Ireland, suppressed by Sir Humphrey Gilbert. 1571 Ridolfi plot to depose...of the globe (Nov). 1578 Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to America; Frobisher...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Town's seafaring links with an island far away
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 2/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...achievement for a matter of weeks. For Sir Humphrey Gilbert drowned when the ship sank on...His direct descendant, Geoffrey Gilbert, who lives at Compton Castle...not discover Newfoundland, Sir Humphrey Gilbert was the first one to have...
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Birthdays
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/5/1995; 700+ words
; ...football manager, 64; Sir Michael Drury, Emeritus...actor, 58; Field Marshal Sir Peter Inge, Chief of the...Meyer International, 51; Sir Michael Kerry, former...1984. On this day: Sir Humphrey Gilbert took possession of Newfoundland...
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Joachim Gans of Prague: The First Jew in English America.
Magazine article from: American Jewish History; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...of 1585 aboard one of Sir Walter Raleigh's ships under the command of Sir Richard Grenville. On...metallurgist sailed with Sir Humphrey Gilbert when he tried in 1583...is today Canada. When Gilbert's half brother, Sir...
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Striving to establish colonies in eastern North America in the seventeenth century as they sought the elusive passage to the Orient, the French and the English shared ideas--often unwittingly. The published theories of one Englishman, Edward Hayes, take a complex and circuitous path and seem to serve as compass to Samuel de Champlain's explorations. Which raises the provocative question: was New France born in England?
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...America. Hayes was a respected associate of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, commanding a ship on Sir Humphrey's ill-fated 1583 voyage to the New World...in A Discourse on Western Planting, which Gilbert's half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh...
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American colonial dream turned into a nightmare
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 8/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...colonialism. On the one hand there is Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who, in Ireland, had lined...The demise of the eccentric Gilbert - who sold millions of acres to...colonies. The first was inspired by Gilbert's failure and had as its motor...
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sir Humphrey Gilbert (ca. 1537-1583), English soldier and colonizer...Beers Quinn, ed., The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (2 vols., 1940). William G. Gosling, The Life of Sir...
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Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539?–83), half‐brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, and like him an explorer...of this voyage by Edward Haies, Sir Humphrey Gilberte and His Enterprise of Colonization...
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Gilbert's Patent
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
GILBERT'S PATENT GILBERT'S PATENT. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, an English nobleman whose conduct during the imposition of Tudor rule in Ireland earned him a reputation for brutality, was by the 1570s a leading promoter of the search for a Northwest...
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Walter Raleigh The English...accompanied his half brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on a voyage ostensibly...return in 1579, Raleigh and Gilbert faced the displeasure of...Ventures The patent under which Gilbert had led his expedition of...
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Sir Martin Frobisher
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Martin Frobisher , 1535?-1594, English...trade. He later gained the friendship of Sir Humphrey Gilbert , through whom he became interested in...he won glory as commander of a ship in Sir Francis Drake 's expedition to the West...
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