Editing Michael Faraday (section)

===Adult life===
[[File:Portait of Michael Faraday2.png|thumb|upright|left|''[[Portrait of Michael Faraday]]'' by [[Thomas Phillips]], 1842]]
In 1812, at the age of 20 and at the end of his apprenticeship, Faraday attended lectures by the eminent English chemist [[Humphry Davy]] of the [[Royal Institution]] and the [[Royal Society]], and [[John Tatum (scientist)|John Tatum]], founder of the City Philosophical Society. Many of the tickets for these lectures were given to Faraday by [[William Dance]], who was one of the founders of the [[Royal Philharmonic Society]]. Faraday subsequently sent Davy a 300-page book based on notes that he had taken during these lectures. Davy's reply was immediate, kind, and favourable. In 1813, when Davy damaged his eyesight in an accident with [[nitrogen trichloride]], he decided to employ Faraday as an assistant. Coincidentally one of the Royal Institution's assistants, John Payne, was sacked and Sir Humphry Davy had been asked to find a replacement; thus he appointed Faraday as Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution on 1 March 1813.<ref name="EncBrit"/> Very soon, Davy entrusted Faraday with the preparation of nitrogen trichloride samples, and they both were injured in an explosion of this very sensitive substance.<ref>[[#Thomas|Thomas]], p. 17</ref>

Faraday married Sarah Barnard (1800–1879) on 12 June 1821.<ref>The register at St. Faith-in-the-Virgin near [[St. Paul's Cathedral]], records 12 June as the date their licence was issued. The witness was Sarah's father, Edward. Their marriage was 16 years prior to the Marriage and Registration Act 1837. See [[#Cantor|Cantor]], p. 59.</ref> They met through their families at the [[Sandemanian]] church, and he confessed his faith to the Sandemanian congregation the month after they were married. They had no children.<ref name=ODNB>{{cite ODNB|id=9153|title=Faraday, Michael (1791–1867)|orig-year=2004|year=2011|last=James|first=Frank A. J. L.}}</ref> Faraday was a devout Christian; his Sandemanian denomination was an offshoot of the [[Church of Scotland]]. Well after his marriage, he served as [[deacon]] and for two terms as an [[Elder (Christianity)|elder]] in the meeting house of his youth. His church was located at Paul's Alley in the [[Barbican Estate|Barbican]]. This meeting house relocated in 1862 to [[Barnsbury]] Grove, [[London Borough of Islington|Islington]]; this North London location was where Faraday served the final two years of his second term as elder prior to his resignation from that post.<ref>[[#Cantor|Cantor]], pp. 41–43, 60–64, 277–280.</ref><ref>Paul's Alley was located 10 houses south of the [[Barbican Estate|Barbican]]. See p. 330 [[James Elmes|Elmes]]'s (1831) ''Topographical Dictionary of the British Metropolis''.</ref>  Biographers have noted that "a strong sense of the unity of God and nature pervaded Faraday's life and work."<ref>{{Cite journal| author=Baggott, Jim | title = The myth of Michael Faraday: Michael Faraday was not just one of Britain's greatest experimenters. A closer look at the man and his work reveals that he was also a clever theoretician | journal=New Scientist | date = 2 September 1991 | url = https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13117874.600-the-myth-of-michael-faraday-michael-faraday-was-not-justone-of-britains-greatest-experimenters-a-closer-look-at-the-man-and-hiswork-reveals-that-he-was-also-a-clever-theoretician-.html | access-date =6 September 2008 }}</ref>