TC-JPKS, 24 May. MS: EUL. Hitherto unpbd. James Phillips Kay Shuttleworth (1804–77; ODNB), founder of English popular education; M.D., Edinburgh, 1827; settled in Manchester as a physician, became interested in public health, and wrote widely on the unhealthy living and working conditions in the city; asst. poor-law commissioner, 1835; first sec. of the committee of council on education, 1838–49; joint founder of Battersea training college for teachers; m., 24 Feb. 1842, Janet (d. 1872), only da. of Robert Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall, nr. Burnley, Lancs., whose name he assumed. Created bart., 1849; vice chairman of the central relief committee during the Lancs. cotton famine, 1861–65; high sheriff of Lancs., 1863; author of two novels and many works on education and social questions.