 ", which calls the first Hanoverian king "Geordie Whelps", a play on "George the Guelph".Another explanation for the name states that local miners in the northeast of England used Geordie safety lamps, designed by George Stephenson, known locally as "Geordie the engine-wright", in 1815 rather than the competing Davy lamps, designed about the same time by Humphry Davy and used in other mining communities.Using the chronological order of two John Trotter Brockett books, "Geordie" was given to North East pitmen; later he acknowledges that the pitmen also christened their Stephenson lamp "Geordie".