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A stamp depicting Gilbert. After the assassination of O'Neill in 1567, Gilbert was appointed governor of Ulster and served as a member of the Irish Parliament.At about this time, he petitioned William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth's principal secretary, for a recall to England, citing "for the recovery of my eyes", but his ambitions still rested in Ireland and particularly in the southern province of ...
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, [ 1 ] with the majority for Worcestershire and Oxford University . [ 2 ]
Like Sir Humphrey Gilbert, he was a member of the Devon family of Gilbert of Compton and he was named after Sir Humphrey's half brother Sir Walter Raleigh. He gained a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry in 1800, and in September the following year was posted to the 15th Bengal Native Infantry (commanded by Colonel John Macdonald) as ensign.
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Gilbert gathered eleven heavily armed ships and a crew of 600, many of them convicted pirates especially pardoned for the voyage. Knollys soon refused to acknowledge Sir Humphrey's authority and, together with the pirate John Callis , took three ships (later joined by more) to the Spanish Coast on a privateering expedition.
In 1574 he, together with Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Richard Grenville, and Christopher Carleill, petitioned the queen to allow them an expedition into unknown lands. In the enterprise, which finally took form in 1583, Peckham alongside Thomas Gerard was the chief adventurer, Gilbert assigning to him large grants of land and liberty of trade.
Younger audiences today might not have Humphrey Bogart's name on the tip of their tongue, but he was iconic enough to come in at No. 1 among the male actors on the American Film Institute's 1999 ...
His childhood neighbours included Adrian Gilbert and Humphrey Gilbert and their half-brother Walter Raleigh. [1] From early on, he also became friends with John Dee. [2] Map showing Davis's northern voyages. From A life of John Davis, the navigator [3]