Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
by Edward Hayes
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the founder of the first English colony in North America, was born about 1539, the son of a Devonshire gentleman, whose widow afterward married the father of Sir Walter Raleigh. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served under Sir Philip Sidney's father in Ireland, and fought for the Netherlands against Spain. After his return he compose ...