Kay-Shuttleworth, James Phillips (1804–1877)

English educational administrator, physician, and politician who promoted a national system of education and teacher-training.

Kay-Shuttleworth was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. In his work as an urban doctor, he was confronted with the social and educational deprivation of many city dwellers. He was determined to improve education and entered politics, in time establishing a system of government school inspection, founding the first teacher-training college at Battersea, London (1839–40), and devising the pupil–teacher system of training elementary school teachers. He retired in 1849 and received a knighthood, but continued to campaign for educational improvements. In medical matters, his Physiology, Pathology and Treatment of Asphyxia became a standard textbook.