KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, SIR JAMES PHILLIPS, was born July 20th 1804; and having received his early education at Scotch and foreign universities, he took his degree of Doctor of Laws. He entered the public service at an early age, and when the committee of the Privy Council on Education was nominated, Dr. Kay was appointed secretary to that body. In this capacity he laboured for'many years to carry out the principle of admitting the lay as well as the clerical clement to a share in the management of parochial schools, in oppo sition to the claims of exclusive clerical control put forth by Archdeacon Denison and the High Church party, who raised an agitation of several years' duration against the imposition of the management clauses,' as they were termed. These clauses were first rendered compulsory on all schools whose managers petitioned for the assistance of govern ment grants in 1847, and the terms upon which that assistance is given to all religious denominations are now such as are generally acquiesced in by all. It would be useless and profitless to detail here
the successive stages of a controversy which was protracted over several years ; it is enough to state that, having carried the controversy to a victorious issue, Dr. Kay was rewarded with a baronetcy on his retirement from his official position as secretary of the Committee of the Privy Council for Education in 1850. In 1842 he married Janet, only daughter and heiress of the late Robert Shuttleworth, Esq., of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, and representative of the ancient family of Shuttleworth, whose name he then assumed by royal licence. Although retired from official services, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth has continued to take an active interest in all educational movements; and his name is usually found in the lists of those who promote and take part in public meetings for the extension of education, the establishment of libraries, &c., especially in the north of England.