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412-14, 431; friendship with Byron, 350; Continental tour (1813-15), 352-5; first analyses iodine with Gay-Lussac, 353-4; writes on limits of contemporary scientific research, 355-6; investigates natural gases in Italy, 356-7; appointed Vice-President of Royal Institution, 358; buys house in Mayfair, 359; on eternal physical laws, 360; investigates fire-damp in coal mines, 361-4; develops safety lamp for miners, 364-70; awarded Rumford Medal from Royal Society, 369; baronetcy, 369; Stephenson disputes priority in developing safety lamp, 371-4; honoured in Newcastle, 374; two-year European tour with Jane (1818-20), 375-81; childlessness, 376; temper, 376; and Banks’s final illness and death, 380, 397; in Byron’s Don Juan, 380; buys house in Park Street, 397; elected President of Royal Society, 397-401; shooting holiday with Sir Walter Scott, 398; revisits Penzance, 400-1; clumsy handling of Royal Society committee meetings, 401; jealousy of Faraday, 402; supposed involvement in laboratory injury to Faraday, 402-3; public activities and offices, 403-5; investigates copper hull corrosion on naval ships, 411-14; unpopularity at Royal Society, 412; satirised and mocked, 413; socialising, 413; Continental tour with brother John (1827), 414-15; heart disease and strokes, 414, 432-3; and mother’s death, 414, 428; resigns presidency of Royal Society, 419; final Continental tour (1828), 420-1; takes morphine, 420, 433; nursed by Josephine Dettela in Laibach, 421-3; sends late papers to Royal Society, 431-2; death, 433, 435; estate and bequests, 433-4; Babbage’s view of, 439; researches into electricity, 444; accepts Natural Theology, 450; on evolution, 455; Mary Somerville writes on, 458; ‘The Chemical Philosopher’, 249; Collected Works (ed. John Davy), 434; Consolations in Travel, 248, 294, 356, 378, 424-33, 450; Elements of Chemical Philosophy, 343-5, 356-7; ‘Essays on Heat and Light’, 250; On the Safety Lamp for Coal Miners, with Some Researches into Flame, 370; Researches Chemical and Philosophical, 264, 270-1, 277, 279, 281-4; Salmonia, or Days of Fly-Fishing, 262, 416-20, 423-4, 432
    Davy, Jane, Lady (née Kerr; then Apreece): meets Davy, 304, 337; background and character, 337-8; Davy courts and corresponds with, 340-2; marriage and honeymoon with Davy, 343, 346-7; deteriorating marriage relations, 348-50, 374-6, 397, 400-1, 405, 412-14; social life, 350, 357, 377, 415; attitude to Faraday, 352, 358, 402, 448; Continental tour with Davy (1813-15), 352, 355, 357-8; in Paris, 353; Ticknor meets, 360; fishing holidays, 361; and Davy’s preoccupation with developing miners’ safety lamp, 365; two-year European tour with Davy (1818-20), 375-8, 380; Banks’s attitude to, 384; holiday with Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford, 398; unpopularity in Penzance, 401n; absence from Davy’s later Continental tours, 414-15, 420; and Davy’s nurse in Laibach, 421, 423; and Scott’s review of Salmonia, 423; and Davy’s writing of Consolations in Travel, 425; Davy’s later easier attitude to, 431; visits dying Davy in Rome, 432; and Davy’s death, 433; inheritance from Davy, 434
    Davy, John (Humphry’s brother): birth, 234; and Humphry’s romantic attachments, 241, 301; recalls Humphry’s early experiments, 249; sadness at Humphry’s departure for Bristol, 253; as Humphry’s temporary assistant at Royal Institution, 298n; and Humphry’s marriage to Jane, 343, 346; serves as military doctor, 359, 433; on Humphry’s marriage difficulties, 376; and Humphry’s solving naval ships’ corrosion problem, 412; accompanies Humphry on 1827 Continental tour, 414-15; attends mother’s funeral, 414; and Humphry’s poems to Josephine, 423; visits dying Humphry in Rome, 432-3; later travels and career, 433; writes life of Humphry, 434; The Angler and his Friend, 434; Fragmentary Remains (of Humphry Davy), 434; Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy, 275, 434
    Davy, Kitty (Humphry’s sister), 238-9
    Davy, Robert (Humphry’s father), 237-40,