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MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] See also:GILBERT (1818-1861)  , dancer and adventuress, the daughter of a See also:British See also:army officer, was See also:born at See also:Limerick, See also:Ireland, in 1818 . Her See also:father dying in See also:India when she was seven years old, and her See also:mother marrying again, the See also:child was sent to See also:Europe to be educated, subsequently joining her mother at See also:Bath . In 1837 she made a runaway match with a See also:Captain See also:James of the See also:Indian army, and accompanied him to India . In 1842 she returned to See also:England, and shortly afterwards her See also:husband obtained a See also:decree nisi for See also:divorce . She then studied dancing, making an unsuccessful first See also:appearance at Her See also:Majesty's See also:theatre, See also:London, in 1843, billed as " See also:Iola Montez, See also:Spanish dancer." Subsequently the See also:fleet; on the 3oth of See also:July he was off the See also:north See also:coast of See also:Newfoundland; on the 3rd of See also:August he arrived off the See also:present St See also:John's, and selected this site as the centre of his operations; on the 5th of August he began the See also:plantation of the first See also:English See also:colony in North See also:America . Proceeding southwards with three vessels, exploring and prospecting, he lost the largest near Cape See also:Breton (29th of August); immediately after (31st of August) he started to return to England with the " See also:Golden See also:Hind " and the " See also:Squirrel," of See also:forty and ten tons respectively . Obstinately refusing to leave the " See also:frigate " and See also:sail in his " See also:great See also:ship," he shared the former's See also:fate in a See also:tempest off the See also:Azores . " See also:Monday the 9th of See also:September," reports See also:Hayes, the captain of the " Hind," "the frigate was near See also:cast away yet at that See also:time recovered; and, giving forth signs of joy, the See also:general, sitting abaft with a See also:book in his See also:hand, cried out unto us in the ` Hind," We are as near to See also:heaven by See also:sea as by See also:land.' .... The same Monday See also:night, about twelve, the frigate being ahead of us in the ` Golden Hind,' suddenly her See also:lights were out, .... in that moment the frigate was devoured and swallowed up of the sea." See See also:Hakluyt, See also:Principal Navigations (1599), VOL iii. pp . 135-181; See also:Gilbert's Discourse of a See also:Discovery for a New Passage to Cataia, published by See also:George See also:Gascoigne in 1576, with additions, probably without Gilbert's authority; See also:Hooker's Supplement to See also:Holinshed's Irish See also:Chronicle; See also:Roger See also:Williams, The Actions of the See also:Low Countries (1618) ; See also:State Papers, Domestic (1577-1583) ; See also:Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; North British See also:Review, No . 45; See also:Fox See also:Bourne's English See also:Seamen under the Tudors; See also:Carlos Slafter, See also:Sir H . Gylberte and his Enterprise (See also:Boston, 1903), with all important documents .

Gilbert's interesting writings on the need of a university for London,anticipating in many ways not only the See also:

modern London University but also the British Museum library and its compulsory sustenance through the provisions of the See also:Copyright See also:Act, have been printed by See also:Furnivall (See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's Achademy.) in the See also:Early English See also:Text Society Publications, extra See also:series, No. viii .

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