NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Davy, Jane (1780-1855) nee Kerr, wife of Sir Humphry Davy DNB: Davy [née Kerr], Jane, Lady Davy (1780-1855), society figure LBT ID: JaDavy1855 | B/BAP: 1780-02-05 DIED: 1855-05-08 |
SOURCES: Vere Langford Oliver, The History of the Island of Antigua (1894) 2:108; DNB | |
Society hostess who in 1798 married Shuckburgh Ashby Apreece (d. 1807) and Humphry Davy
in 1812. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Lady Jane Davy [née Kerr]: Sydney Smith to Jane Apreece [afterwards Davy], 29 December 1811 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Sydney Smith to Lady Jane Davy, 4 April 1818 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Sydney Smith to Lady Jane Davy, [May 1818] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Sir Walter Scott to Lady Jane Davy, 24 January 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Sir Walter Scott to Lady Jane Davy, 6 February 1826 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Sydney Smith to Lady Jane Davy, 7 July 1838 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Sydney Smith to Lady Jane Davy, 20 November 1840 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Sydney Smith to Lady Jane Davy, 31 August 1841 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) |