name variants: Humphrey Cole; Humfray Colle;

sold scientific and mathematical instruments from St Paul's Churchyard, London; produced astrolabes, sundials, altazimuth and theodolites; Cole supplied navigational instruments to the Martin Frobisher expeditions searching for the North-West passage in 1576;

about 1563-1578 - was a die-sinker at the Mint at the Tower of London; and engraved maps