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In 1980 it merged with PGGS and Lescudjack schools, becoming a co-educational comprehensive school, with the name Humphry Davy School. [2] [3] Much of the original building has been preserved and, in the summer of 2013, the school received funding worth over £300,000 to replace the sash windows with handmade modern versions. [citation needed]
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]
Located in Astoria, Queens, the school was built in 1907. The school was dedicated to Judge Charles J. Vallone on February 18, 1988. [ 3 ] Before 1988, it was named after Humphry Davy , a British scientist.
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]
Robert Southey (/ ˈ s aʊ ð i, ˈ s ʌ ð i /; [a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions.
Educated at Bromsgrove School, Humphry Davy School and University of Bristol, [2] Quayle entered the Foreign Office in 1977 and studied Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and at Chiang Mai University. [3] [1]
1815, Pigment studies by Sir Humphry Davy (he had a small portable chemical laboratory and traveled around Europe, accompanied by Michael Faraday 1813–1815) 1850, First U.S. Art Restoration Company was formed in New York City – Oliver Brothers Smithsonian Institution, James Oliver account books [ 1 ]
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" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.