Davies Gilbert

Davies Gilbert PRS was a British engineer, author, and politician. He was elected to the Royal Society onNovember 1791 and served as President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830.

Davies Giddy was born onMarch 1767, the second child of three, to the Reverend Edward Giddy, curate of St Erth church, and Catherine Davies, daughter of Henry Davies of Tredrea, St Erth. The first child, also Davies by forename, had died withinhours of birth in 1766, and the third child, daughter Mary Philippa Davies Giddy was born in 1769. The Giddy family moved into Penzance, living on Chapel Street in 1775, until Giddys mother Catherine inherited the family home of Tredrea back in St Erth. By 1780 the family returned to St Erth, and Davies was taught by his father, alongside his sister Philippa. Davies Giddy would later adopt Gilbert as his surname, the maiden name of his wife, the agronomist Mary Ann Gilbert, whom he married at Easter of 1808.

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