Jane Davy

Jane Davy or Jane Kerr or Jane Apreece (5 February 1780 – 8 May 1855) was a British heiress and socialite who, after having lost a rich husband, married Sir Humphry Davy.

Life Jane Kerr's (Davy's) father was Charles Kerr, a Scottish merchant who operated in Antigua.

She turned down a proposal to become the wife of the elder Professor John Playfair and instead accepted the proposal of the celebrity scientist Sir Humphry Davy.

They continued to travel in Europe, but increasingly they travelled separately as they had a difficult relationship. Nevertheless, Lady Davy travelled to Rome when she heard that her husband had been taken ill there, and she accompanied him to Geneva where he died in 1829. and was buried in the family vault at St. Sepulchre's Church, Northampton.

At the time of her death in 1855, her fortune had reached £180,000. She left her fortune to her first cousin, with which he purchased a large house and estate by the River Severn in Gloucestershire.