Sir Humphrey Gilbert was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland. Wikipedia
Died: September 9, 1583, Azores, Portugal
Siblings: Walter Raleigh, Carew Raleigh, and John Gilbert
Books: A discourse of a discovery for a new passage to Cataia, 1576, Queene Elizabethes Achademy: A Booke of Precedence, the Ordering of a Funerall, Etc. Varying Versions of the Good Wife, the Wise Man, Etc. Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, a Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, Etc. Early English treatise and poems on education, precedence, and manners in olden time, and Queene Elizabethes Achademy: A Booke of Precedence, the Ordering of a Funerall, Etc. Varying Versions of the Good Wife, the Wise Man, Etc. Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, a Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, Etc. Accounts of early Italian, German & French books on courtsey, manners, and cookery
Parents: Otho Gilbert and Catherine Champernowne
Nephews: Damerei Raleigh, Carew Raleigh, Wat Raleigh, and more
Education: University of Oxford and Eton College