Famous Members of The Family
- Sir Walter Raleigh- World renowned explorer. Raleigh was half brother to Humphrey Gilbert, and therefore is a relative not a direct ancestor.
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert- Explorer and Founder of the first English colony in America.
- Davies Giddy (Later Gilbert)- President of the Royal Society of Science, High Sheriff of Cornwall, Member of Parliament.
- Mary Ann Gilbert, Agronomist, wife of Davies Gilbert
- John Davies Gilbert (1811 – 1854) - Developed the town of Eastbourne and East Dean in Sussex. Bought Trelissick in Feock, Cornwall. F.R.S.
- Carew Davies-Gilbert - Continued his father's Work in developing the Eastbourne and East Dean.
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