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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 ...
Little is known of the family's activities during the Middle Ages aside from Sir Otho Gilbert of Compton serving as High Sheriff of Devon from 1475 to 1476. It was descendants of this Otho Gilbert who would set out during the Elizabethan period on the family's “hereditary scheme of peopling America with Englishmen”. [2]
The group included Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Richard Grenville, and Sir Ralph Lane. [1] Five of these individuals originated in the southwest region of England known as the West Country , and were particularly associated with the seaports of Devon , especially Plymouth .
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 ]
In addition to the scorched earth policy, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Warham St Leger, Perrot and later Nicholas Malby and Lord Grey and William Pelham, deliberately targeted civilians, including women and children, the elderly or infirm or even those of diminished mental capacity regardless of whether they supported the Desmonds or not. It was ...
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.
Fire in the Abyss is a 1983 science fiction novel by Stuart Gordon, pen name of Richard Gordon, having as its main character the Elizabethan adventurer Humphrey Gilbert, an actual historical figure, as a time traveler. The first section of the book is set in England and spans Gilbert’s youth to his fateful voyage to North America. These ...
Sir Humphrey Gilbert was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford, and involved in the first Plantations of Ireland during the Tudor conquest. He was the first to establish the English colonial empire in North America when he took possession of Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth I on 5 August 1583. He was a maternal half-brother of ...