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Definition of Sir humphrey gilbert
1. Noun. English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Literary usage of Sir humphrey gilbert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
"sir humphrey gilbert. How he heard the ancient helmsman Chant a song so wild ...
sir humphrey gilbert. SOUTHWARD with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"Such was the unfortunate end of the brave sir humphrey gilbert, who may be regarded
as the father of western colonization, and who was one of the chief ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"... made by four ships which sailed in June, 1583, under the command of Sir Humphrey
Gilbert, with the avowed object of founding a colony in Newfoundland. ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... made by four ships which sailed in June, 1583, under the command of Sir Humphrey
Gilbert, with the avowed object of founding a colony in Newfoundland. ..."
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