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Humphrey Davy.	Ref Picture Humphrey Davy
The Meaning of Humphrey: The name Humphrey \ hu-mph-rey,hum-phrey\ is pronounced HUM-free. It is of Old German origin, and its meaning is "peaceful warrior". Support of Peace, Impulsive, Rash, Loyal, Loving, Sometimes Self-indulgent. Diminutive of Humphrey: a Compound of the Words Giant and Peace. from the Old English Name Hunfrith. A saint's name. Actor Humphrey Bogart.Two-element name derived from hun + fridu meaning 'young animal, bear cub, Hun, warrior' + 'peace, protection, safety' respectively. Humphrey has 12 variant forms: Humfrey, Humfrid, Humfried, Humfry, Humph, Humphery, Humphry, Hunfredo, Onfre, Onfroi, Onofredo and Onofrio.Humphrey is an uncommon first name for men but a very common last name for both men and women (#599 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census) ,

Sir Humphrey Davy the famous British Chemist.	Sir Humphrey Davy	The Davy lamp
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. He invented the Davy lamp, which allowed miners to enter gassy workings. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1812, Davy was knighted, gave a farewell lecture to the Royal Institution, and married a wealthy widow, Jane Apreece. (While generally acknowledged as being faithful to his wife, their relationship was stormy, and in his later years Davy travelled to continental Europe alone.) In October 1813, he and his wife, accompanied by Michael Faraday as his scientific assistant (and valet), travelled to France to collect a medal that Napoleon Bonaparte had awarded Davy for his electro-chemical work. While in Paris, Davy was asked by Gay-Lussac to investigate a mysterious substance isolated by Bernard Courtois. Davy showed it to be an element, which is now called iodine.

Humphrey Davy School
Humphry Davy School is a comprehensive school in Penzance, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The school is named after the famous chemist who was born in Cornwall. The school teaches 11-16 year olds. In 2005 it gained specialist status, as a Music College. Notable alumni * Thandie Newton, BAFTA award winning actress * Tom Welham, lead guitarist of Thirteen Senses

Humphrey the Whale	Whale
Humphrey the Whale is arguably the most widely publicized humpback whale in history, having errantly entered San Francisco Bay twice, departing from his Mexico to Alaska migration. This behavior is not normal for any Humpback whale, and Humphrey became well known on national television and press coverage for his misadventures in the years 1985 and 1990. Humphrey is a member of the species Megaptera novaeangliae, and each episode of his bay excursions resulted in a dramatic estuarine rescue of this giant mammal by the Marine Mammal Center, based in Marin County, California, assisted by the United States Coast Guard and hundreds of other volunteers. Humphrey (sometimes known in the media as Humphrey the humpback whale) is 40 feet (12 m) long and weighs 80,000 pounds (36 tons). Humphrey’s last sighting was in the vicinity of the Farallon Islands in the year 1991. In 1985, Humphrey mysteriously entered San Francisco Bay and was followed closely on the evening news by all Bay Area television stations. Each evening the Bay area audience would tune in for the latest update on Humphrey’s plight, until even more amazingly he swam up the Sacramento River into a freshwater habitat.

Humphrey the cat	Humphrey after his retirement
Humphrey (c. 1988 – March 2006) was a cat employed as a mouser at 10 Downing Street from October 1989 to 13 November 1997. Arriving as a one-year old stray, he served under the premierships of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair, but retired a few months after the Blairs moved in to Downing Street.[1] He was the successor to Wilberforce.[2] He was frequently referred to in jest by the Press as an actual employee at Number 10.

Humphrey the Bear	Ref Pic
Humphrey B. Bear is an Australian children's television series and its fictional character namesake is an icon of Australian children's television. Humphrey B Bear was first broadcast on Adelaide's NWS-9 on Monday, 24 May 1965. In the early days the character was known as Bear Bear and was named Humphrey B Bear as the result of an on air competition. The show became one of the most successful programs for pre-schoolers in Australia. The character of Humphrey is a tall, shaggy brown bear with a large plastic nose, straw boater, tartan waist-coat and over-sized yellow bow-tie. His television show always features a companion who assists and narrates Humphrey's various adventures in the "magic forest" including his brightly coloured tree house. The show is shot on television studio set.

Humphrey Bogart	Ref Pic
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957)[1][2] was an American actor. After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster in B-movies. His breakthrough came in 1941, with High Sierra (1941) and The Maltese Falcon (1941). The next year, his performance as Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942) raised him to the peak of his profession and at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Key Largo (1948), with his wife Lauren Bacall; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Academy Award; Sabrina (1954), and The Caine Mutiny (1954). During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films.	File:Humphrey Bogart by Karsh (Library and Archives Canada).jpg