Acknowledgements
This website was produced as part of a Lancaster University Impact and Knowledge Exchange award.
Images of Davy; George IV, the Prince Regent; and Stephenson © the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 2546; NPG D8048; NPG 410), and reproduced under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence. Images have been cropped.
Extracts from Davy’s manuscript letters reproduced courtesy of Northumberland Archives (Woodhorn) (SANT/BEQ/18/11/13) and Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (DX1242).