In the United States of America, generally, and to some extent in England, the invention of the diving-bell has been attributed to Sir William Phipps; who was, however, one of the first persons who used the bell advantageously, in recovering nearly 300,000l. treasure from a Spanish wreck, near the Bahamas. The invention, or the earliest use of the diving-bell, dates from upwards of a century before the birth of Phipps; the first instance of its use being at Cadiz, in the presence of Charles V., in 1538; whereas Phipps was born at Pemaguid, in America, in 1650. There is, likewise, another popular error, that the Mulgrave family, of which the present head is the Marquess of Normanby, descended from Sir William Phipps; the founder of the Mulgrave family being Phipps, one of the earliest explorers of the Arctic regions.