Sir Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy lived in this house in 1798 with Thomas Beddoes. M.D. whose son Thomas Lovell Beddoes. poet was born here 1803. Maria Edgeworth his aunt visited here

Sir Humphry Davy lived in the house in 1798 with Thomas Beddoes, a physician and founder of the Pneumatic Institution, which Davy later worked at; their association contributed to early research into nitrous oxide. The house is also notable as the birthplace in 1803 of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, a poet and son of Thomas Beddoes, and was visited by Maria Edgeworth, a prominent Irish novelist and aunt to Thomas Beddoes.