Humphry Davy bigger. My sight, however, I am informed, will not be injured". Davy's accident induced him to hire Michael Faraday as a co-worker, particularly for assistance with handwriting and record keeping. He had recovered from his injuries by April 1813. In 1812, Davy was knighted and gave up his lecturing position at the Royal Institution. He was given the title of Honorary Professor of Chemistry. He gave a farewell lecture to the Institution, and married a wealthy widow, Jane Apreece. (While Davy was generally acknowledged as being faithful to his wife, their relationship was stormy, and in later years he travelled
H. A. Humphrey Africa. He died there in 1951. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Horniblow. They had three sons and two daughters, the bacteriologist John H. Humphrey among the former. H. A. Humphrey Herbert Alfred Humphrey MInstCE MIMechE MIEE FCGI (2 December 1868 – 9 March 1951) was a British engineer, inventor of the Humphrey pump. Humphrey was born in Gospel Oak, London. He trained at the Finsbury Technical College and the Central Institution (which later became the City and Guilds College). He patented the Humphrey pump in 1906. During World War I he worked as a chemical engineer, working on improving