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William Gilbert

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Noun1.William Gilbert - a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
2.William Gilbert - English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)


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The museum is housed in a building in St Matthew's Street museum where William Gilbert first started making rugby balls in 1842.
1911: Sir William Gilbert, librettist of Gilbert & Sullivan operas, died after rescuing two women from a garden pond.
1600 English physician William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, a comprehensive guide to magnetism.
 
 
 
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