Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth

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Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth, in a cartoon by Spy in Vanity Fair magazine (August 18, 1904)

Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth PC (* December 18, 1844 , † December 20, 1939 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1869 and 1880 and again from 1885 to 1902 was. Among other things, he held the position of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1886 . 1902 was raised to Baron Shuttleworth and became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth was the son of physician James Kay-Shuttleworth , who was Permanent Secretary of the Committee of the Council on Education from 1839 to 1849 , and on December 22, 1849, he became Baronet , of Gawthorpe Hall in the County Palatine of Lancaster , and his wife, Janet Shuttleworth. He received his education at the Harrow School .

On November 18, 1869, Kay-Shuttleworth, the temporarily magistrate (justice of the peace) of Westmorland and Lancashire , was chosen as the candidate of the Liberal Party for the first time a member of the House of Commons and represented in this initially until March 31, 1880 the Hastings constituency . During this time, when his father died on February 26, 1877, he inherited the latter's title of 2nd baronet. After leaving the House of Commons, he was a member of the London School Committee between 1880 and 1882 .

Kay-Shuttleworth was elected for the Liberal Party on November 24, 1885 again to a member of the House of Commons, in which he was now until July 18, 1902 the constituency of Clitheroe . On February 7, 1886, he was of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to Undersecretary of State in the Ministry India ( India Office ) appointed. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over from Edward Heneage on April 16, 1886, the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and held this ministerial office until the end of Gladstone's tenure on July 25, 1886. At the same time he became a member of the Privy Council (PC).

After Kay-Shuttleworth 1888-1992 Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts (Public Accounts Committee) was of the House, he was on 19 August 1892 by Prime Minister Gladstone to the parliamentary secretary and financial secretary of the Admiralty (Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty) appointed and reign of Gladstone's successor Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery from March 5, 1894 to June 21, 1895.

House of Lords, Marriage and Offspring

By a Letters Patent of July 16, 1902 Kay-Shuttleworth was as Baron Shuttleworth , of Gawthorpe in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary peerage ) the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and belonged until his death in the House of Lords as a member. During this time he was chairman of the Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways between 1906 and 1911 . He also succeeded the late Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Lancashire in 1908 and held this position as representative of the monarch in this county until his replacement by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby in 1928.

Kay-Shuttleworth married Blanche Marion Parish on July 1, 1871, daughter of the diplomat and scientist Woodbine Parish . From this marriage there were four daughters and two sons. The eldest daughter, Angela Mary Kay-Shuttleworth, was married to Colonel Bernard Ramsden James. The second oldest daughter, Nina Louisa Kay-Shuttleworth, married the judge Eustace Gilbert Hills. The third eldest daughter Rachel Beatrice Kay-Shuttleworth remained unmarried and was, among other things, also Justice of the Peace of Lancashire. The eldest son, Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, who was born as the fourth child, ran unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party in a by-election on May 28, 1913 for a seat in the House of Commons in the Altrincham constituency and fell as captain of the Royal Field Artillery in the First World War . March 1917. The second eldest son, Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth, a lawyer and captain in the 7th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade , died on July 10, 1917. The youngest daughter Catherine Blanche Kay-Shuttleworth was married to Charles Symonds Leaf, who was a captain in the East Kent Regiment .

Since his two sons were already dead at the death of Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth, on December 20, 1939, his grandson Richard Ughtred Paul Kay-Shuttleworth , the eldest son of Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, inherited his second title Baron and 3rd Baronet.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : 21053, 3915 , December 25, 1849.
  2. ^ The London Gazette: 27455, 4587 , July 18, 1902.
predecessor Office successor
James Kay-Shuttleworth Baronet (of Gawthorpe Hall)
1849-1939 		Richard Kay-Shuttleworth
New title created Baron Shuttleworth
1902-1939 		Richard Kay-Shuttleworth
personal data
SURNAME Kay-Shuttleworth, Ughtred, 1st Baron Shuttleworth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kay-Shuttleworth, Ughtred James; Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir Ughtred, 2nd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1844
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1939