Humphrey Gilbert (Noun)
Meaning
English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Humphrey Gilbert was an English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America 1539-1583.
- Humphrey Gilbert led his expedition to Newfoundland with a fleet of five ships.
- Although the exact cause of death remains uncertain it is commonly attributed to storm damage and flooding off the Azores that struck the Squirrel and death from exposure rather than combat wounds as commonly attributed referring to Humphrey Gilbert and his final voyage.
- The half brothers Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert also of the Devon gentry were adventurers at heart and had inherited a vast fortune in real estate from their half brother Sir John Gilbert.
- Gilbert attempted another voyage to North America in 1583 with a fleet of five ships but disappeared off the coast of Newfoundland in late August of that year presumably lost at sea referring to Humphrey Gilbert.