Note 3 — Chapter I · THE WIDOWED AND THE FATHERLESS.

“When Mrs. Davy became a widow, she was in her thirty-fourth year, with five children, all of whom were still to be educated, excepting Humphry, her eldest son. Her income at this time was about £150 a year, and it was encumbered with a debt of £1300.”—Dr. Davy’s Life of Sir Humphry, vol. i. p. 7.