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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 ]
As part of another expedition, in July 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who had written a treatise on the discovery of the passage and was a backer of Frobisher, claimed the territory of Newfoundland for the English crown. On August 8, 1585, the English explorer John Davis entered Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island. [36]
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Another modern example of a "sea monster" was the strange creature washed up in Los Muermos on the Chilean sea shore in July 2003. It was first described as a "mammoth jellyfish as long as a bus " but was later determined to be another corpse of a sperm whale .
CCGS Sir Humphrey Gilbert [a] is a former Canadian Coast Guard light icebreaker and buoy tender that was later sold to a private owner and renamed Polar Prince.The ship entered service with the Department of Transport Marine Service in 1959 and transferred to the newly created Canadian Coast Guard in 1962, active until 2001.
Humphrey Gilbert (1539–1583), English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier Humphrey Henchman (1592–1675), Church of England clergyman and bishop of London from 1663 to 1675 Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950), English filmmaker and co-founder of Mass-Observation
With the toy came a new type of advertising, with a personal message from Gilbert. Almost every ad carried a headline that remained Erector’s slogan for years: “Hello, Boys! Make Lots of Toys!”