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KAY, JOSEPH (1821-1878)

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KAY, See also:JOSEPH (1821-1878) , See also:English economist, was See also:born at See also:Salford, See also:Lancashire, on the 27th of See also:February 1821. Educated privately and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple in 1848. He was appointed See also:judge of the Salford See also:Hundred See also:court of See also:record in 1862 and in 1869 was made a See also:queen's counsel. He is best known for a See also:series of See also:works on the social See also:condition of the poor in See also:France, See also:Switzerland, See also:Holland, See also:Germany and See also:Austria, the materials for which he gathered on a four years' tour as travelling See also:bachelor of his university. They were The See also:Education of the Poor in See also:England and See also:Europe (See also:London, 1846); The Social Condition of the See also:People in England and Europe (London, 185o, 2 vols.); The Condition and Education of Poor See also:Children in English and in See also:German Towns (See also:Manchester, 1853). He was also the author of The See also:Law See also:relating io Shipmasters and See also:Seamen (London, 1875) and See also:Free See also:Trade in See also:Land (1879, with a memoir). He died at See also:Dorking, See also:Surrey, on the gth of See also:October 1878.

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