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Davy was born in Penzance, Cornwall, England on 17 December 1778, the eldest of the five children of Robert Davy, a woodcarver, and his wife Grace Millett. [1] According to his brother and fellow chemist John Davy, their hometown was characterised by "an almost unbounded credulity respecting the supernatural and monstrous ...
David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham (originally spelled Davy Graham) (26 November 1940 – 15 December 2008) was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival.
Humphry Davy's first biographer, [12] John Ayrton Paris, was an unreliable witness, according to June Z. Fullmer. [13] She contests the idea that Davy was a "country bumpkin", giving evidence that he and his family were of middling status in Penzance society: [14] "Intimated always, in Paris's descriptive flights, were notes of snobbish disdain".
When he was a 16-year-old pupil at St Paul's School in London, the lines of his first clerihew, about Humphry Davy, came into his head during a science class. [4] Together with his schoolfriends, he filled a notebook with examples. [5] The first known use of the word in print dates from 1928. [6]
Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto FBA (6 February 1897 – 21 January 1982) was a British classical scholar of Cornish ancestry. He was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire . He was educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester , and St. John's College, Cambridge .
Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy is an 1821 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence. It depicts the scientist Sir Humphry Davy , president of the Royal Society . Davy is known for the invention of the Davy Lamp and isolating a number of elements using electricity .
Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), British botanist and chemist; Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British scientist; Humphry Ditton (1675–1715), British mathematician; Humphry Garratt (1898–1974), British cricket player; Humphry Knipe (1941–2023), South African writer; Humphry Legge, 8th Earl of Dartmouth (1888–1962), British police officer
Jane Kerr's (Davy's) father was Charles Kerr, a Scottish merchant who operated in Antigua. [1] Her mother was Jane Kerr (formerly Tweedie). [1] Her father had made his fortune through the sale of various Prizes of War, including the sale of their cargoes and the sale/lease of slaves, as well as various other business activities on the island. [1]