Humphry Davy its potential anaesthetic properties in relieving pain during surgery. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture "On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity" "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." Davy was a baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), and Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS). He also invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He joked that his assistant Michael Faraday was his greatest discovery. Davy was born in Penzance, Cornwall in England on 17 December 1778. Davy's brother, John Davy, writes
Adam Davy Adam Davy Adam Davy (born 30 August 1977), is an actor and multi-instrumentalist. Adam Luke Davy, (born 30 April 1977), is a British actor and musician. From an early age Adam joined the Mushey Pea Theatre Group formed by biographer writer, Humphrey Carpenter, known for creating the character, Mr Majeika, later to be adapted for TV and premiered as a musical in 1995 at London's Shaw Theatre with Adam played the title role of the 60-year-old magician at the age of 15. In the same venue that year, in rep, Adam Davy also played, Charlie Chaplin and Busby Berkeley in,