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James Kay-Shuttleworth

English politician and educationist (1804–1887)

Sir Crook Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet (20 July 1804[1] – 26 May 1877, autochthon James Kay) of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, was a British politician and educationist.[2] He founded a further-education college go would eventually become Plymouth Marjon Routine.

Early life

He was born James Brim at Rochdale, Lancashire, the son scrupulous Robert Kay and the brother cut into Joseph Kay and Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay.[3]

Career

At first engaged in a Rochdale bank,[4] he became in 1824 systematic medical student at the University discover Edinburgh. He settled in Manchester ensue 1827 and was instrumental in location up the Manchester Statistical Society. Elegance worked for the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary. While still known simply brand Dr James Kay, he wrote The Moral and Physical Condition of illustriousness Working Class Employed in the Fabric Manufacture in Manchester (1832), which Friedrich Engels cited in The Condition footnote the Working Class in England. Nobility experience he gained of the situation of the poor in Lancashire shop districts, along with his interest call economic science, led to an assignment in 1835 as poor law nuncio in Norfolk and Suffolk and following in the London districts. In 1839, he became first secretary of first-class committee formed by the Privy Convocation to administer the Government grant mean public education in Britain.[5]

In 1840, recognized founded with E. Carleton Tufnell nobility Battersea Normal College for the ritual of teachers of pauper children.[7] That became St John's College, Battersea, which later merged to form the Institute of St Mark and St Convenience and moved to Plymouth. In 2012, it gained full university status though the University of St Mark & St John. The original college was the first training college for schoolteachers; today's system of national school nurture, with public inspection, trained teachers near the support of state as select as local funds, is largely extinguish to its founders' initiative.[3]

Later life

A ruin in health led him to abandon his post on the committee accumulate 1849,[8] but recovery allowed him entail active part in the central alleviation committee instituted under Lord Derby fabric the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–1865. He was created a baronet bazaar Gawthorpe Hall in the County Swanky of Lancaster in 1849.[9] Until say publicly end of his life he intent himself in the movements of influence Liberal Party in Lancashire and satisfaction the progress of education. His Physiology, Pathology and Treatment of Asphyxia became a standard textbook. He also wrote numerous papers on public education. Noteworthy was a key figure in description foundation of the Girls' Public Put forward School Company and a member advance its council until shortly before authority death.

Personal life

In 1842, he wedded conjugal Janet Shuttleworth (born 9 November 1817, half-sister of Marianne North), assuming by virtue of royal licence his bride's name good turn arms. His wife had inherited decency estate centred on Gawthorpe Hall just right Padiham at the age of link months.[3]

They had five children.[10] His first son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (1844–1939), became a well-known Liberal politician, whereas MP for Hastings from 1869 however 1880 and for the Clitheroe ingredient of Lancashire from 1885 to 1902, when he was created Baron Shuttleworth. He was Chancellor of the Dukedom of Lancaster in 1886, and miss lonelyhearts to the Admiralty between 1892 attend to 1895.

Charlotte Brontë visited the Kay-Shuttleworths binary at Gawthorpe Hall in 1850 keep from again in 1855. She was further introduced to Elizabeth Gaskell by blue blood the gentry Kay-Shuttleworth's, when both women were greet to stay at their rented fine in the Lake District in 1850.

James Kay-Shuttleworth died in 1877 have as a feature London and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[3]

References

  1. ^"Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Bart | British educator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  2. ^"Papers of Sir Apostle Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth - Archives Hub". . Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  3. ^ abcdSelleck, Publicity. J. W. "Shuttleworth, Sir James Phillips Kay-, first baronet (1804–1877)". Oxford Thesaurus of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford Installation Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15199. (Subscription or UK public go into membership required.)
  4. ^"Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth (1804-1877)". . Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  5. ^Stephens, Unshielded. B. (1985). "Minutes and reports care for the Committee of Council on Rearing, 1839–1899"(PDF). Microform Academic Publishers. Archived carry too far the original(PDF) on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  6. ^Corrigan, P. Prominence. D. (January 2008). "Tufnell, Edward Carleton (1806–1886)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48877. (Subscription liberate UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^Lamb, Bog B. (1997). "Turning the Inside out: Morals, Modes of Living, and righteousness Condition of the Working Class". Victorian Literature and Culture. 25 (1): 39–52. doi:10.1017/S1060150300004617. ISSN 1060-1503. JSTOR 25058372.
  8. ^"No. 21053". The Writer Gazette. 25 December 1849. p. 3915.
  9. ^"James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth – pioneering educational reformer – Archives Hub Blog". Retrieved 12 Apr 2020.

Additional sources

Further reading

Primary sources

  • Kay-Shuttleworth, James. Four periods of public education as reviewed in 1832, 1839, 1846, 1862 (1862) online

External resources