Hayzelden's cricketing debut came during the 1929 season in which he played in an Essex tailend against Worcestershire, though he only made one run before being bowled by Indian-born Humphrey Gilbert.
He became interested in the voyages of discovery made by Humphrey Gilbert.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert- Explorer and Founder of the first English colony in America.
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The Davies-Gilbert family are descendants of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who was an older half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh (over 15 years younger).
Fire in the Abyss is a science fiction novel by Stuart Gordon, pen name of Richard Gordon, (1983), having as its main character the Elizabethan adventurer Humphrey Gilbert, an actual historical figure, as a time traveler.
She may not have been part of the Royal Navy, and was possibly part of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 expedition to Newfoundland.
As Kenneth Andrews has commented, this thesis cannot be proved, and has evidently failed to convince some other authorities, but it must be taken seriously in the light of references to Francesco’s project contained in the dispatches of Michel de Castelnau de la Mauvissière, French ambassador in London, during the period 1577-1580 when he reported on the voyages of John Frobisher, Humphrey Gilbert and Francis Drake.
While Sir Humphrey Gilbert formally claimed Newfoundland as an English possession in 1583, this did not lead to permanent European settlement.
The five Courts and Corte Real (the services building) are named after notable early explorers of North America, all of whom have connections to Newfoundland; Jacques Cartier, Giovanni Caboto, Humphrey Gilbert, John Guy, George Calvert (1st Baron Baltimore), and Gaspar Corte-Real.
Humphrey Bogart | Gilbert and Sullivan | Hubert Humphrey | W. S. Gilbert | Humphrey Gilbert | Gilbert | Humphrey Lyttelton | Gilbert O'Sullivan | Gilbert Gottfried | Gilbert Burnet | George Gilbert Scott | Gilbert Islands | Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette | Gilbert, Arizona | Cass Gilbert | Paul Gilbert | Giles Gilbert Scott | Gilbert Stuart | Gilbert de Clare | Brantley Gilbert | Hurricane Gilbert | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette | Gilbert Arenas | L. Wolfe Gilbert | Gilbert White | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto | Gilbert Bécaud | Chad Gilbert | Philippe Gilbert |