KAY-SHUTTLE WORTH

Sir James Phillips , 1 Baronet (brother of Joseph Kay 1821–78). b. Rochdale 20 July 1804; educ. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1827; senior president Royal Medical soc. 1826; physician Manchester 1827; sec. Manchester board of health; a istant poor law commi ioner 1835; first sec. of committee of privy council on education 1839–49; with E. Car let on Tufnell established first training coll. for teachers at Batter sea 1839, existing methods of public education founded on his system; a umed by r.l. name of Shuttle worth 14 Feb. 1842; cr. baronet 9 Jany. 1850; vice chairman of central relief committee, Manchester, during cotton famine 1861–5; sheriff of Lancashire 1863; D.C.L. Oxf. 22 June 1870; contested N.E. Lancashire 13 Feb. 1874; author of The moral and physical condition of the working cla es employed in the cotton manufacture 1832; Public education as affected by the minutes of the committee of privy council 1853; Scars dale, or life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border 3 vols. 1860; Thoughts and suggestions on social problems 1873; Ribblesdale, or Lancashire sixty years ago 3 vols. 1874. d. 68 Cromwell road, Kensington, London 26 May 1877. Graphic , xv 549 (1877), portrait .