Martin Davy

Martin Davy (1763–1839) was an English physician and academic, Master of Caius College, Cambridge from 1803.

He was educated first at Norwich grammar school, then was a pupil of a Great Yarmouth surgeon.

[1] Critical accounts by Henry Gunning and Joseph Romilly affected his subsequent reputation.

He had Whig principles, and supported a move of 1834 in favour of the university education of nonconformists.

In 1827 the Tory ministry gave him the rectory of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, and he was made prebendary of Chichester in the year 1832.

[1] Davy wrote in 1809 a pamphlet Observations upon Mr. Fox's Letter to Mr. Grey contained in Lord Holland's preface to C. J.