| Authorised form of name | Davy; Edmund (1785 - 1857); chemist |
| Dates | 1785 - 1857 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Penzance, Cornwall, England |
| Date of birth | 1785 |
| Place of death | Kimmage Lodge, County Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of death | 05 November 1857 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Penzance
Career:
Went to London (1804); Laboratory Operator and Assistant, Royal Institution, through the influence of Humphry Davy; had control of the laboratory (1804-1813); Professor, Royal Cork Institution (1813); Professor of Chemistry, Royal Dublin Society (1826); wrote on agricultural chemistry, electro-chemistry and metallurgy
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Relationships | Son of William Davy; cousin of Sir Humphry Davy (FRS 1803), and of John Davy (FRS 1814) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Citation: first 'being' deliberately obscured & '[...] ... being' inserted; small sections of certificate missing |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/41134825 |
| Royal Society code | NA7507 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1825/17 | Davy, Edmund: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/426/248 | Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to E [Edmund] Davy, Esq | 4 January 1847 |
| MS/426/239 | Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to E [Edmund] Davy Esq, Dublin [Ireland] | 18 December 1846 |
| PT/11/9 | Paper, 'On a new fulminating platinum' by Edmund Davy | 20 December 1816 |
| PT/14/8 | Paper, 'On some combinations of platinum' by Edmund Davy | 1 September 1819 |
| MC/1/302 | Letter from Edmund Davy, Royal Dublin Society, to John George Children, Secretary of the Royal Society | 12 April 1831 |
| RR/2/56 | Referee's report by John Percy, on a paper 'On the application of Potash as a test for Manganese' by Edmund Davy | 27 April 1854 |
| RR/1/49 | Referee's report by Michael Faraday, on a paper 'On a new combination of chlorine and nitrous gas' by Edmund Davy | 15 April 1851 |
| MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |
| AP/15/3 | Unpublished paper, 'On a new combination of chlorine and nitrous gas' by Edmund Davy | [1831] |
| AP/14/5 | Unpublished paper, 'On a new fulminate of silver, and its application as a test for chlorine, etc.' by Edmund Davy | [1830] |
| AP/34/6 | Unpublished paper, 'On some new and simple methods of detecting manganese in natural and artificial compounds and of obtaining its combinations for economical or other uses' by Edmund Davy | 1853 |