In 1824 to reduce the impact of this destructive electrolytic action on ships hulls, their fastenings and underwater equipment, the Victorian scientist-engineer Sir Humphry Davy, developed the first and still most widely used marine electrolysis protection system.

The Lavoisier definition was held as absolute truth for over 30 years, until the 1810 article and subsequent lectures by Sir Humphry Davy in which he proved the lack of oxygen in H < sub > 2 </ sub > S, H < sub > 2 </ sub > Te, and the hydrohalic acids.

Boron was not recognized as an element until it was isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard.

This was confirmed by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810, who named it chlorine, from the Greek word χλωρος ( chlōros ), meaning " green-yellow.

It was not isolated until 1808 in England when Sir Humphry Davy electrolyzed a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide.

The first ever clerihew was written about Sir Humphry Davy:

: Sir Humphry Davy

It was invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy.

Sir Humphry Davy had discovered that a flame enclosed inside a mesh of a certain fineness cannot ignite firedamp.

Sir Humphry Davy's portrait in the 19th century.

Sir Humphry Davy's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of electricity in simple electrolytic cells resulted from chemical action and that chemical combination occurred between substances of opposite charge.

At the same time, Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy, the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem.

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS ( 17 December 177829 May 1829 ) was a British chemist and inventor.

Some degree of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir Humphry Davy and independently by George Stephenson.

* 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.

Although sodium, sometimes called soda, had long been recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide.

" The element was eventually isolated by Sir Humphry Davy in 1808 by the electrolysis of a mixture containing strontium chloride and mercuric oxide, and announced by him in a lecture to the Royal Society on 30 June 1808.

In 1877, the Russian chemist Serge Kern reported discovering the missing element in platinum ore. Kern named what he thought was the new element davyum ( after the noted English chemist Sir Humphry Davy ), but it was eventually determined to be a mixture of iridium, rhodium and iron.

Sir Humphry Davy and Andrew Crosse were among the first to develop large voltaic piles.

* May 29 – Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist ( b. 1778 )

* Earliest preparation of magnesium metal by Sir Humphry Davy.

* January 7 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.

* December 17 – Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist ( d. 1829 )

* 1807 – Potassium, sodium, barium, calcium and magnesium were discovered by Sir Humphry Davy using electrolysis.

Sir Humphry Davy, 1830 engraving based on the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence ( 1769 – 1830 )

Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.

Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

In Commentaries on the Laws of England ( Bk I, ch. 4, pp 106 – 108 ), Sir William Blackstone described the process by which English common law followed English colonization:

Rhyming slang is used, then described and a number of examples suggested as part of dialogue in one scene of the 1967 film To Sir With Love starring Sidney Poitier.

In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.

Sir William Deane described one of his functions as being " Chief Mourner " at prominent funerals.

The first to speak was the Speaker of the House of Commons ( later Master of the Rolls ), Sir Edward Philips, who described the intent behind the plot in lurid detail.

A classic example of this is described in Sir Thomas Roe's diaries, in which the Emperor had his painters copy a European miniature several times creating a total of five miniatures.

A causeway connects the island to the mainland of Northumberland and is flooded twice a day by tides – something well described by Sir Walter Scott:

It was independently described as Ornithorhynchus paradoxus by Johann Blumenbach in 1800 ( from a specimen given to him by Sir Joseph Banks ) and following the rules of priority of nomenclature it was later officially recognised as Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

Allen Brown described Château Gaillard as " one of the finest castles in Europe " and military historian Sir Charles Oman wrote that:

In infants, scurvy is sometimes referred to as Barlow's disease, named after Sir Thomas Barlow, a British physician who described it.

Sir William Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, described summary offences thus:

The controversial tiered concrete New Court ( often dubbed " the Typewriter ") was designed in the Modernist style by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1966-70, and was described as " superb " in Lasdun's obituary in the Guardian.

The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.

Sir Henry Bessemer described the origin of his invention in Chapters 10 and 11 of his autobiography.

Blind Harry was active some two hundred years after the events described in his The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, c. 1470.

Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet, described her in 1706 " under a fit of the gout and in extreme pain and agony, and on this occasion everything about her was much in the same disorder as about the meanest of her subjects.

The Labour government was defeated by the Conservatives in a general election in November ( which Elizabeth described as " marvellous " to her mother ) and the Governor-General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Sir Lee Stack, was assassinated three weeks later.