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Lady Jane Davy [née Kerr]
(1780-1855)

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)
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