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ROLL OF HONOUR 143 were invented by him. The wreck of H.M.S. Anson on Looe bar with the loss of over 100 lives in 1807 had a great effect on one of the spectators, Henry Trengrouse, a Helston cabinet-maker, who thereupon invented the Sir Humphry Davy rocket life-saving apparatus and spent 3000 all his means in experiments and in vain endeavours to induce Government to adopt the system. Another great bene- factor to mankind was Sir Humphry Davy, the son of a poor gilder near Penzance. His safety-lamp he nobly
