Name Index

To

The Life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, England's First Empire Builder

London, Constable and Co. (1911) 304 pp.

by

William Gilbert Gosling

Prepared by Michael Steer

The author was a prominent Dominion of Newfoundland politician and businessman. From 1916 to 1920, he served as the mayor of St. John's. In 1906, Gosling helped revive the Newfoundland Historical Society. About this time, he became involved in historical writing when Wilfred Grenfell asked him to contribute a chapter on the history of Labrador to his book on his experiences as a Labrador physician. In 1910, the chapter was expanded into a published book, "Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development", which remains an authoritative source on the subject today. The following year, the present book on the life of Humphrey Gilbert appeared in London bookstores This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the University of California Library collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.