Sir Humphry Davy, baronet

(1778-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Davy, Humphrey, Sir, 1778-1829 NRA: Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829) 1st Baronet Physicist DNB: Davy, Sir Humphry, baronet (1778-1829), chemist and inventor LBT ID: HuDavy1829 VIAF ID: 29630108 LOC ID: n79142750	B/BAP: 1778-12-17 DIED: 1829-05-29
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English chemist and physicist, inventor of the safety lamp; in Bristol he knew Cottle, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey; he was president of the Royal Society (1820).
REFERENCES TO Sir Humphry Davy, baronet: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 5 June 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 12 July 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 22 September 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 1 January 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 8 January 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 9 January 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1 April 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 21 May 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Margaret Southey, 21 August 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to John Rickmon, 22 August 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Robert Southey to John Rickman, October 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 25 March 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, 13 April 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 25 July 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 3 August 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 14 October 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 16 October 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Isaac D’Israeli to John Murray, April 1804 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 16 May 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 June 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 27 June 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 30 July 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to John Rickman, July 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 17 November 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 9 February 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 23 April 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Thomas Charles Morgan to Sydney Owen, November 1811 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Owenson to Thomas Charles Morgan, November 1811 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Lord Byron, 16 July 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 28 September 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 John Whishaw to Smithson Tennant, 11 December 1813 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Samuel Rogers, [7 June 1814?] in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lady Holland to John Whishart, 17 December 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 Henry Holland to John Whishaw 30 December 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 14 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 19 Januaruy 1815 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ n1 John Murray to Walter Scott, 8 November 1815 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 2 October 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, 11 November 1816 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 6 A Review of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, for October 1817 (Edinburgh: James Anderson, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 26 March 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, [September] 1817 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Jane Davy, 4 April 1818 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 4 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 7 December 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lady Morgan to Lady Olivia Clarke, 28 October 1819 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 20 February 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 18 April 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 May 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 24 May 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 11 November 1820 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ n2 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE YOUNG SPIRITS. Verse 2: p. 41b p. 41b NOTES. 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