Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay (2 July 1822 – 16 March 1897) was a British jurist. He was an English High Court judge (

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) from 1881 to 1890, and a

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from 1890, when he was made a Privy Councillor, until his retirement in January 1897. He was born in Meadowcroft near

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and grew up in Bury (both nowadays part of

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) and was the brother of

Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet (20 July 1804 – 26 May 1877, born James Kay) of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, was a British politician and educationist. He founded a further-education college that would eventually become Ply ...

and of Joseph Kay. Their father Robert Kay of Rochdale was a follower of the Nonconformist Lancashire Congregational Union and served as its treasurer until 1817. Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay Escutcheon

He was admitted to

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in 1839 and received a

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in 1844 and an M.A. in 1847. He was admitted to

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in 1844, called to the bar in 1847. He became an authorised reporter at the

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and was the author of "Kay's Reports" and part of "Kay and Johnson's Reports" during the period from 1853 to 1858.The formal titles were
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery Before Sir William Page Wood, Knt., Vice-Chancellor
' He became QC in 1866. In 1850 he married his wife Mary Valence French, the daughter of William French who was Master of Jesus College from 1820 to 1849. In 1883 he was living at Thorpe Abbotts in

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. His wife died in 1889 or 1890 and he founded the Lady Kay Scholarship in her memory, open to students at Jesus College, Cambridge who have the intention of seeking Holy Orders in the

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* * http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53011 * * * 1822 births 1897 deaths Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Lord justices of appeal Chancery Division judges People from Bury, Greater Manchester Members of Lincoln's Inn Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English King's Counsel Knights Bachelor 19th-century English lawyers People from South Norfolk (district) {{UK-law-bio-stub