** Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer ( d. 1558 )

His last public appearance was at his 80th birthday, in 1986, when a group of his former students, including Sir Martin Gilbert, Alan Sked, Norman Davies and Paul Kennedy, organised a public reception in his honour.

During his childhood, the government was led by three successive factions, first the King's mother, Mary of Guelders ( 1460 – 1463 ) ( who briefly secured the return of the burgh of Berwick to Scotland ), then James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews, and Gilbert, Lord Kennedy ( 1463 – 1466 ), then Robert, Lord Boyd ( 1466 – 1469 ).

The song regained prominence in 1932 when the Irish lyricist Jimmy Kennedy added words and it was recorded by the then popular Henry Hall ( and his BBC Dance Orchestra ) featuring Val Rosing ( Gilbert Russell ) as lead vocalist, which went on to sell a million copies.

Other celebrities with whom they have appeared on TV are Michael Bublé, Westlife, Kanye West, Alison Moyet, Tom Baxter, Katherine Jenkins, Brian Kennedy, Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Andrea Corr and Paul Harrington.

* Thomas Kennedy, Vicar of Penpont, a son of Gilbert Kennedy, 2nd Earl of Cassilis

* Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy ( c. 1406 – c.

* Gilbert Kennedy, 2nd Earl of Cassilis ( d. 1527 )

* Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis ( 1515 – 1558 )

* Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis ( c. 1541 – 1576 )

Around 1360 John Kennedy became owner of lands at Cassillis and in 1457 his descendant, Gilbert, was created Lord Kennedy.

**** Gilbert ( Became Lord Kennedy in about 1457 )

Thomas Boyd was contracted, 20 January 1465, to Marion, youngest daughter of Gilbert, 1st Lord Kennedy, but this marriage does not appear to have taken place, and he married, which took place after his first marriage to Lady Elizabeth Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie, before 26 April 1467, the Lady Mary, eldest daughter of King James II.

In 1570, a dispute arose between Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis, and Allan Stewart, the succeeding lay Commendator of Crossraguel Abbey over the ownership of some of the abbey lands and their rental income.

She was the guest of Gilbert Kennedy, the 4th Earl of Cassilis.

Other plays include Sullivan & Gilbert ( a co-production of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Arts Centre of Canada, voted Best Play of 1988 by the Ottawa critics ); a new adaptation of Where ’ s Charley?

Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, rebuilt Carmarthen castle in 1145 then began a campaign to reclaim Ceredigion.

The following year, Bruce finally resigned as joint Guardian and was replaced by Sir Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus.

Bruce, with a small following of his most faithful men, including Sir James Douglas and Gilbert Hay, Bruce's brothers Thomas, Alexander and Edward, as well as Sir Neil Campbell and the Earl of Lennox fled.

# Marjorie ( 1200 – 17 November 1244 ), married Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke.

** Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln

* Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( d. 1148 )

* Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford ( b. 1115 )

* Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier ( d. 1230 )

* 1264 – April – Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford leads a massacre of the Jews at Canterbury.

* December 7 – Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English politician ( b. 1243 )

* October 25 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier ( b. 1180 )

* January 6 – Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( b. 1100 )

* September 2 – Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English politician ( d. 1295 )

* April – Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford leads a massacre of the Jews at Canterbury.

* Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus

Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Guardian of England, died at the castle in 1295, and King Edward II was briefly imprisoned there in 1326.

The construction of this castle between 1268 and 1271 by Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford | Gilbert de Clare led to a dispute between Llywelyn the Last and the English crown, one of the issues which led to the wars of 1277 and 1282 and the end of Welsh independence

Gilbert is better known for his participation in the assassination of Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall.

* Mary Cavendish married Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury.

# Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke ( 1197 – 27 June 1241 ), married ( 1 ) Marjorie of Scotland, youngest daughter of King William I of Scotland ; by an unknown mistress he had one illegitimate daughter:

# Isabel Marshal ( 9 October 1200 – 17 January 1240 ), married ( 1 ) Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, whose daughter Isabel de Clare married Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale, the grandfather of Robert the Bruce ; ( 2 ) Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall

Firstly, on 30 March 1231, at St Mary's Church at Fawley in Buckinghamshire, to Isabel Marshal, widow of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.

It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.

However, without Grimthorpe's money, it seems reasonable to assume that the Abbey Church would now almost certainly be a ruin, like many other former monastic churches, despite the work performed under Sir George Gilbert Scott in the years 1860 to 1877.

One very famous colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was Sir Arthur Grimble ( 1888 – 1956 ), at first as a cadet officer in 1914, under Edward Carlyon Eliot who was Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands colony from 1913 to 1920.

* 1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect ( b. 1811 )

* 1880 – Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer ( d. 1960 )

* 1836 – Sir W. S. Gilbert, British dramatist ( d. 1911 )

* 1936 – Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian

The Commons Chamber was rebuilt after the war under the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a simplified version of the old chamber's style.

The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.

* August 5 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England, marking the beginning of the British Empire.

In 1851 The Illustrated London News said that it " seems to exhibit the peculiar beauties of Carnarvon Castle without its inconveniences " and in 1858 Sir George Gilbert Scott called it " the largest and most carefully and learnedly executed Gothic mansion of the present " and that it was " the very height of masquerading ".

For instance, the Illustrated London News praised the work of both Gilbert and, especially, Sullivan: " Sir Arthur Sullivan has eminently succeeded alike in the expression of refined sentiment and comic humour.

* Sir Gilbert Murgatroyd The Eighteenth Baronet

In the revised ending substituted by Gilbert after the premiere, only Sir Roderic comes back to life.

In November, he returned to America with Gilbert, Sullivan and a company of strong singers, including J. H. Ryley as Sir Joseph, Blanche Roosevelt as Josephine, Alice Barnett as Little Buttercup, Furneaux Cook as Dick Deadeye, Hugh Talbot as Ralph Rackstraw and Jessie Bond as Cousin Hebe.

' I cannot find words to convey to the reader the pain I felt in seeing those dear children taught to utter such words to amuse ears grown callous to their ghastly meaning .... How Mr. Gilbert could have stooped to write, or Sir Arthur Sullivan could have prostituted his noble art to set to music, such vile trash, it passes my skill to understand ".

These included the Chapel, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, which includes in its interior some pieces saved from the original chapel.

The room was extended from five to eight bays according to designs by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1863.