James kay shuttleworth biography of mahatma

English politician and educationist (–)

Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet (20 July ^[1] – 26 May , born James Kay) of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, was a British politician and educationist.^[2] He founded a further-education college that would eventually become Plymouth Marjon University.

Early life

He was born James Kay at Rochdale, Lancashire, the son of Robert Kay and the brother of Joseph Kay and Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay.^[3]

Career

At first engaged in a Rochdale bank,^[4] he became in a medical student at the University of Edinburgh.

He settled in Manchester about and was instrumental in setting up the Manchester Statistical Society. He worked for the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary. While still known simply as Dr James Kay, he wrote The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Class Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester (), which Friedrich Engels cited in The Condition of