Davies Gilbert

(1767-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gilbert, Davies, 1767-1839 NRA: Gilbert Davies (1767-1839) MP scientist antiquary DNB: Gilbert [formerly Giddy], Davies (1767-1839), scientific administrator and applied mathematician LBT ID: DaGilbe1839 VIAF ID: 50005783 LOC ID: n86135466	B/BAP: 1767-03-06 DIED: 1839-12-24
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Originally Giddy; born in Cornwall and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, he was a Whig MP for Helston (1804-06) and Bodmin (1806-32), and president of the Royal Society (1827-30)
REFERENCES TO Davies Gilbert: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 June 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Lewis Mallet to John Whishaw, 8 September 1831 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 3: ¶ 14-3 ¶ 14-5 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. X. 1804 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 11: Bulwer-Lytton Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. 12: G. P. R. James Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 8 Geographical Society Found 1: ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 17 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Found 1: ¶ n1