Robert Newbald Kay

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Sir Robert Newbald Kay ( 6 August 1869 – 9 October 1936) was a British lawyer and politician.

He passed his final Law Society examinations in 1892 and the next year he founded Newbald Kays, a firm of solicitors in York. A Methodist, he was for a time a member of the Methodist Conference and funded the construction of a chapel in Acomb, Yorkshire.

He was Lord Mayor of York in 1925 and from 1923 to 1924 he was Liberal MP for Elland in West Yorkshire. He was knighted in 1920.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by:
William Cornforth Robinson
Member of Parliament for Elland
19231924
Succeeded by:
William Cornforth Robinson