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Humphry Davy School is a comprehensive school in Penzance, Cornwall, England. The school teaches 11 to 16-year-olds. The school teaches 11 to 16-year-olds. History
A secondary school in Coombe Road, Penzance, is named Humphry Davy School. [76] A pub at 32 Alverton Street, Penzance, is named "The Sir Humphry Davy". [77] [78] One of the science buildings of the University of Plymouth is named The Davy Building. [79] There is a road named Humphry Davy Way adjacent to the docks in Bristol. [80]
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".
Sir Humphry Davy, scientist; John Davy, chemist; John Divane, Irish soldier of the 60th Rifles and recipient of the Victoria Cross; Gilbert Hunter Doble, clergyman and scholar; Martin Fido, university professor, true crime writer and broadcaster; Sir John Forbes, physician; Simon A. Forward, novelist and dramatist; Alethea Garstin, artist
Sir Humphry Davy Bt MRI PRS 1778–1829 Apprentice apothecary to John Bingham Borlase in this building, 1795–1798. Progressed to the Medical Pneumatic Institution, Bristol, 1798 and to the Royal Institution, London, 1801. Davy established the nature of acids, identified 9 elements and invented the miner's safety lamp. 1 Market Place Penzance
Altarnun Primary School, Altarnun Alverton Primary School, Penzance Antony CE School, Antony; Archbishop Benson CE Primary School, Truro Beacon ACE Academy, Bodmin Berrycoombe School, Bodmin
Pages in category "People from Penzance" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total. ... Humphry Davy; John Davy (chemist) Gilbert Hunter Doble;
People educated at Humphry Davy Grammar School for Boys, Penzance, Cornwall. The school was replaced with a co-educational comprehensive school with the name Humphry Davy School in 1980. Pages in category "People educated at Humphry Davy Grammar School for Boys"