DAVISON, Robert. b. Belford, Northumberland 10 May 1804; resident engineer to Truman and Co. brewers, London 1831–45; patented a process for drying wood and other substances by currents of hot air which was worked by Patent Desiccating Co. 1845 and received gold medal of Soc. of Arts; erected Findlater’s brewery, Dublin 1852; designed Allsopp’s new brewery at Burton; invented machinery for raising and conveying malt; patented machinery for cleansing casks by a double rotatory motion; A.I.C.E. 1834, M.I.C.E. 1840; prime warden of Blacksmiths’ Co. 1857–58. d. Finchley 14 March 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ii, 192 (1842), iii, 57 (1843), lxxxiv, 442–44 (1886).
DAVISON, Sir William (son of Alexander Davison of St. James’s sq. London, government contractor 1750–1829). b. 1788; ed. at Eton; captain Northumberland militia 7 July 1807; equerry to 1 Duke of Cambridge 1813–50; equerry to 2 Duke of Cambridge 1850 to death; captain on half pay of 2 Foot 25 Dec. 1813; lieut. col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837; K.H. 1824; knighted at the King’s lodge, Windsor 3 Sep. 1824. d. London 14 Jany. 1873.
DAVY, David Elisha (son of Mr. Davy of Rumburgh, Suffolk, farmer, who d. 1799 aged 90). b. 1769; F.L.S. 17 Dec. 1793; receiver general for Suffolk 1795; collected for nearly 50 years, materials for history of Suffolk which were bought by British Museum 1852; communicated a series of notices of sepulchral monuments existing in parish churches of Suffolk to the Topographer and Genealogist; wrote many articles on genealogical matters to Gent. Mag. under initials D. A. Y.; author of A short account of Leiston Abbey by D. E. D. edited by J. Bird 1823. d. Ufford near Woodbridge, Suffolk 15 Aug. 1851.
DAVY, Edmund (2 son of William Davy of Penzance). b. Penzance 1785; assistant in laboratory of Royal Institution, London 1804–13; professor of chemistry in Royal Cork Institution 1813–26 and in Royal Dublin Society 1826–1854 when he retired on full salary; gave upwards of 30 courses of lectures on chemical subjects; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1826; author of An essay on the use of peat or turf as a means of promoting the public health and the agriculture of the United Kingdom 1850, and of 33 papers 1812–57. d. Kimmage lodge, co. Dublin 5 Nov. 1857. H. B. Jones’s Royal Institution (1871) pp. 280, 360, 366.
DAVY, Edward (eld. son of Thomas Davy of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, surgeon). b. Ottery St. Mary 16 June 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; operative chemist at 390 Strand, under title of Davy and Co. 1830; invented and patented Davy’s Diamond Cement 1835; laid down a mile of copper wire around inner circle of Regent’s Park 1837 where he made many experiments in electricity; opened an exhibition of his telegraphic apparatus at Exeter hall 29 Dec. 1837; patented his electro-chemical recording telegraph 4 July 1838 which was bought by the Electric Telegraph Company for £600; sailed for Australia as medical superintendent of an emigrant ship 15 April 1839; edited the Adelaide Examiner 1843–5; manager of copper smelting works at Yatala 1848–51; head of Government Assay office at Adelaide 1852–3 and at Melbourne, July 1853 to Dec. 1854; surgeon at Malmesbury, Victoria 1855 to death; author of An experimental guide to chemistry 1836; Outline of a new plan of telegraphic communication 1836. d. Malmesbury 27 Jany. 1885. Memoir of E. Davy by his nephew H. Davy 1883; J. J. Fahie’s Edward Davy and the electric telegraph 1836 to 1839 (1883).
DAVY, John (2 son of Robert Davy of Penzance, wood-carver, who d. 1794). b. Penzance 24 May 1790; studied medicine at Edin., M.D. 1814; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1814; hospital assistant in the army 19 May 1815; inspector general of army hospitals 22 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1849 when placed on h.p.; author of An account of the interior of Ceylon 1821; Researches, physiological and anatomical 1839; Notes and observations on the Ionian islands 2 vols. 1842; Lectures on chemistry 1849; Discourses on agriculture 1849; On some of the more important diseases of the army 1862; The angler and his friends or piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions 1855. d. Lesketh-how near Ambleside 24 Jany. 1868. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 79–81 (1868); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 111 (1874), iii, 1152 (1882).
DAVY, Sir William Gabriel (eld. son of Major Davy, Persian secretary to Warren Hastings). b. King’s Holme near Gloucester 1779; ensign 61 foot March 1797; major 60 foot 5 Feb. 1807; lieut.-col. 7 garrison battalion 28 Dec. 1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 March 1836; col. commandant 60 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tracy park near Bath 25 Jany. 1856 aged 77.
DAVYS, Right Rev. George (son of John Davys of Rempstone, Notts.) b. Loughborough, Leics. 1 Oct. 1780; a sizar at Ch. coll. Cam. 1799, fellow 14 Jany. 1806–1814; tenth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; V. of Willoughby in the Wolds, Lincs. 1811–29; educated the Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace 1827–37; R. of Allhallows on the Wall, city of London 1829–39; dean of Chester 10 Jany. 1831 to May 1839, instituted 21 Feb. 1831; bishop of Peterborough, May 1839 to death, consecrated 16 June; author of Village conversations on the Liturgy of the Church of England 1820, 8 ed. 1829; Village conversations on the principal offices of the Church 1824, 2 ed. 1849; Letters between a father and his son on Roman history and other subjects 1848, and of various educational works which appeared anonymously in The cottagers’ monthly visitor and National School Mag. d. The palace, Peterborough 18 April 1864.
DAVYS, Venerable Owen. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Cranwell, Lincs. 1834–46; archdeacon of Northampton 15 Sep. 1842 to death; canon of Peterborough 15 Sep. 1842 to death; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 1846 to death. d. 8 Feb. 1875.
DAWES, George (youngest son of Thomas Dawes, who d. 3 Jany. 1871). b. Angel court, Throgmorton st. London 23 Nov. 1810; solicitor at Angel court 1835 to death; solicitor to Associated fire offices and Fire office committee; settled form of fire policy generally used by insurance offices; conducted most of the leading insurance cases. d. Barlow, Florida, U.S. 9 Dec. 1887.