Nick Darke [SEP] cause of death
he wrote and narrated, charts the lives of Cornish beachcombers, of which he himself was one having moved permanently back home to Porthcothan in 1990. He married the painter Jane Spurway in 1993 and is the father of film-maker Henry and stepfather of Jim, a marine scientist. He was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd in 1996 taking the Bardic name "Scryfer Gwaryow" ('Writer of Plays').
While recovering from a stroke that he suffered in January 2001, Nick Darke was diagnosed with terminal
"the fly-fisherman bible".
In popular culture.
- Davy is the subject of a humorous song by Richard Gendall, recorded in 1980 by folk-singer Brenda Wootton in the album "Boy Jan Cornishman", the seven verses of which each recall a day of the week on which Davy purportedly made a particular discovery.
- English playwright Nick Darke wrote "Laughing Gas" (2005) a comedy script about the life of Sir Humphry Davy, unfinished at the time of Nick Darke's death