Gilbert Sir Humphrey

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, English navigator, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, was born in 1539 at Greenway, on the Dart, was educated at Eton and Oxford, served with the army in Ireland in 1570, and fought in the Netherlands. In 1578 he was granted a patent to establish settlements abroad, and made his first voyage. In 1583 he went with five ships to take possession of and settle Newfoundland, and on the return voyage in the Squirrel, of 10 tons, he was lost. He wrote a very eloquent and learned discourse on the North-West Passage.