| | | Thanks so much for the information, Frank.
I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find links to my heritage. My blood grandfather on my mother's side was named Russell Davy. He was a jerk who left my grandmother while she was pregnant with my mother. He descended from Sir Humphry Davy, who is well-known in Wales. King George III knighted him in 1812 for inventing the Davy carbide lamp, which revolutionized the coal mining industry.
Sir Humphry was one of the first substance abusers but I suppose he can be forgiven because in that era it was the only way to test the effects of some of his inventions, such as nitrous oxide, which some of you may have inhaled at the dentist's office.
He wrote the first book on Fly Fishing: 'Salmonia', or Days of Fly Fishing.
He was also an art critic, and declared that the Louvre in France held the finest collection of picture frames he'd ever seen.
Davy ran around with Mary Shelley, who may have gotten her idea for Frankenstein in his labs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of his poet friends. |
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