If we are talking about the inventor of the miner's safety lamp the name is Sir Humphry Davy.
He was born at Ludgvan a village just outside Penzance into a family resident there for at least two hundred years before his birth.
He was president of the Royal society in 1821.
There are numerous biographies and other publications:
Try;
Trenneer Anne
The mercurial chemist
196?
Kendall James
Humphry Davy
1954
Paris J A
The Life of Sir Humphry Davy
1831
Davy john
Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry davy
1836
Thorpe T E
Sir Humphry davy, poet and philosopher
1896
There is a large and imposing statue to Sir Humphry in the centre of Penzance and a local school is named in his honour.
Hope all this is helpful.
Owen Baker
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Subject: Re: Sir Humphrey Davey
Further to my last message of about ten minutes ago, if Humphrey
Davey was of the Davey family of Bochym in Cornwall, then I owe the
NRA an apology, as the Cornwall Record Office has the following
collections that might be of interest:
> 1795-1908 : Cornwall (Bochym in Cury etc) estate and mining
> business accounts and papers and misc Davey family diaries
> Cornwall Record Office
> Reference : DD Lee
> NRA 4997 Davey
>
> 16th cent-20th cent : Cornwall (Bochym in Cury etc) deeds,
> legal and estate papers
> Cornwall Record Office
> Reference : DD RH 841-1040
> NRA 37648 Ratcliffe
>
> 1838-1872 : Cornwall (Bochym in Cury, etc) estate accounts
> Cornwall Record Office
> Reference : AD 1086, 1116
> see Annual Return 1996
Archifydd Cynorthwyol / Assistant Archivist
Adran Llawysgrifau a Chofysgrifau / Dept of Manuscripts & Records
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion SY23 3BU
e-bost / e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
tel: 01970 632 870
ffacs: 01970 632 883
<http://www.llgc.org.uk>
Fy marn fy hun yw'r uchod a nid yw o raid un LlGC
The above is my own opinion and not necessarily that of NLW
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