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. | |
REFERENCES TO Lady Jane Davy [née Kerr]: Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 19 July 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 1 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 9 August 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 3 November 1810 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) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, 22 June 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) Found 1:
¶ 5 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) Walter Scott to Lord Byron, 16 July 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 28 September 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 4 John Whishaw to Smithson Tennant, 11 December 1813 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 1 Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, 8 September 1814 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 3 Lady Holland to John Whishart, 17 December 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 6 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 26 March 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, [September] 1817 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) Found 1:
¶ 2 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) Found 1:
¶ 2 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) Found 1:
¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1:
¶ 3 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 22 September 1833 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) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sydney Smith to George Philips, 23 November 1835 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) Found 1:
¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1810 Found 1:
¶ 1 Chapter IV 1828 Found 1:
¶ 11 Chapter VIII 1831 Found 1:
¶ 40 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1:
¶ 11 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) Verse 1:
p. 435a Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, December 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) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [October] 1843 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) Found 1:
¶ 4 John Gibson Lockhart to Maria Edgeworth, 28 August 1847 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1:
¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 15 January 1848 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1:
¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 18 April 1854 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1:
¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 29 September 1854 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1:
¶ 1 Saba Holland, 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) Letters 1811 Found 1:
¶ n1 Letters 1840 Verse 1:
p. 435a Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXII Found 1:
¶ 22 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter X. 1822-24. Found 1:
¶ 22 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXVIII. Found 1:
¶ 41 Chap. XXXIV. Found 1:
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