Modern English biography

_portrait_; _How I won the Victoria cross_ (1860). _By T. H. Kavanagh_, _portrait_; _The Verdict. By T. H. Kavanagh. Lucknow_ (1877). KAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1816; member of faculty of procurators, Glasgow; member of Glasgow Shakspeare club, instituted 1838; director of the Glasgow Athenæum; a contributor to Tait’s Mag., London Journal, Glasgow Tales of the borders, West of Scotland Mag., and Dramatic Rev.; dramatised Dickens’ Christmas Carol; wrote poetical introduction to Tam O’Shanter, a pantomime at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow, which ran 82 nights; author of Florine, a dramatic poem in ten scenes 1858. _d._ 1860. _monu._ to his memory in Sighthill cemet. _Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 69. KAY, JOSEPH (3 son of Robert Kay 1768–1834). _b._ Ordsall cottage, Salford, Manchester 27 Feb. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; travelling bachelor of the Univ. 1845; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; wrote in the Manchester Examiner on Free trade in land; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848, bencher 31 May 1870 to death; judge of Salford Hundred court of record, June 1862 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham 15 Feb. 1872 to death; contested Salford 1874 and 1877; author of The education of the poor in England and Europe 1846; The social condition of the people in England and Europe 2 vols. 1850; The condition and education of poor children in English and in German towns 1853; The law relating to shipmasters and seamen 2 vols. 1875. _d._ Fredley near Dorking, Surrey 9 Oct.