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
Humphrey Orme the Convention Parliament. He was recommended as a Knight of the Royal Oak. He was re-elected in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1671. Orme died at the age of 50. Orme married Mary Apreece, widow of Robert Apreece and daughter of Sir Henry Bedingfield, 1st Baronet of Oxburgh, Norfolk. Humphrey Orme Humphrey Orme (1620 – 2 March 1671) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and from 1660 to 1671. Orme was the son of Humphrey Orme of Peterborough and his wife Mary Orme, daughter of Humphrey Orme