GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY
\ɡˈɪlbət], \ɡˈɪlbət], \ɡ_ˈɪ_l_b_ə_t]\
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(1539-1584), English navigator, half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, sought to discover a northwest passage to India, and wrote a treatise on the subject. In 1578 he made an expedition which met with no success. In 1583 he planted a colony at Newfoundland which did not prosper. On his return he was lost at sea.
By John Franklin Jameson
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