Robert Newbald Kay
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Sir Robert Newbald Kay (6 August 1869 – 9 October 1936) was a British lawyer and politician, based in York. His parents were William Kay and Mary Harrison (nee Newbald)'s sister Ann Newbald. [1]
Kay passed his final Law Society examinations in 1892 and the next year he founded Newbald Kay solicitors in York [2].
A Methodist, he was for a time a member of the Methodist Conference and funded the construction of a chapel in Acomb, Yorkshire (Yorkshire Gazette,. 1 June 1934).
He was knighted in 1920, and from 1923 to 1924 was Liberal Member of Parliament for Elland in West Yorkshire. He was Lord Mayor of York in 1925.
Around 1929 he became a Governor of Elmfield College and was instrumental in closing the college down during the Great Depression, as he bought the college estate, demolished the buildings, and sold off the estate off as building plots.
It is said that he did something similar regarding an estate on South Bank, York, and the streets on that estate are actually named after his children.
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| Preceded by William Cornforth Robinson |
Member of Parliament for Elland 1923–1924 |
Succeeded by William Cornforth Robinson |
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