Humphrey Gilbert, educated at Eton and Oxford…
August 1566 CE
Humphrey Gilbert, educated at Eton and Oxford University, where he had learned to speak French and Spanish and studied the arts of war and navigation, had gone on to reside at the Inns of Chancery in London around 1560-61.
As a soldier in the English army, he had been present at the siege of Newhaven in where he was wounded at about the age of twenty-four.
His assumed personal mottoes are, Quid non? (”Why not?”) and, Mutare vel timere sperno (”I scorn to change or to fear”), which indicate how he chooses to live his life.
Gilbert was by July of 1566, serving in Ireland under the command of his mentor, Sidney, against O’Neill but will be sent to England later in the year with dispatches for the queen.
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