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of Greenway, on the Dart, by Catherine, daughter of Sir 
Philip Champernoun, of Modbury. He was thus half-brother of 
Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Humphry was born about 1539, was 
Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Munster, and in 1571 M.P. 
for Plymouth. He was also a spirited navigator; and having 
sailed from Plymouth 11th June, 1583, after visiting Newfound- 
land, he was lost at sea in September of that year. Of his peculiar 
tragic death Longfellow has written — 
" Eastward from Campobello 
Sir Humphry Gilbert sailed ; 
Three days or more seaward he bore, 
Then, alas ! the land wind failed. 
" Alas ! the land wind failed, 
And ice-cold grew the night ; 
And never more, on sea or shore, 
Should Sir Humphry see the light." 
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We are told that on the night of the 9th September the 
lights of his ship were suddenly lost sight of by the crew of 
the Hind— « And like a dream in the Gulf stream 
Sinking, vanished all away." 
Sir Humphry married Ann, daughter of Sir Anthony Agar, of 
Kent, by whom he had issue several children, of whom were John, 
Humphry, Otho (died in Belgium), Arthur (killed at Amiens, in 
France, s.p.), Anthony (ob. s.p.), Raleigh, Adrian. 
6. Sir Richard Grenville, Gu. three sufflues or organ rests or: 
imp. Az. fretty arg., a chief or; St. Leger. This bright example 
of the English gentleman of the Elizabethan era, so well known to 
the readers of Kingsley's Westward Ho ! was the representative of 
the ancient family of Grenville, of Stowe, being the son and heir of 
Roger Grenville, who was drowned in the Mary Hose, at Ports- 
mouth, in 1545, by his wife Thomasin, daughter of Thomas Cole, 
of Slade. Sir Richard — named in the will of his grandfather, 
Sir Richard Grenville, of Stowe, as " son of Roger, my son and heir 
apparent " — was aged eight years and no more at his grandfather's 
death in 1551 (Inq. P.M.), and died from his wounds in a sea-fight 
in the Revenge. Sir Richard married Mary, daughter of Sir John 
St. Leger, and heir to her brother. She was buried, as appears by 
the Parish Register, at Bideford, 5th November, 1623, "in the 
Grenviles He." By this lady he had issue : Sir Bernard Grenville, 
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