Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (1778 -1829), portrait by Henry Howard, oil on canvas, 1803.

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Davy was a Cornish chemist and inventor and natural philosopher, who is best remembered today for the invention of the eponymous safety lamp for use in coal mines. Davy was a close friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, from whom he absorbed the concept of 'Romantic genius' to which he aspired. Mary Shelley used him as the model for Doctor Frankenstein.

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