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Sir Robert Newbald Kay

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Sir Robert Newbald Kay( 6 August 1869 - 9 October 1936) was a British lawyer and politician.

He passed his final Law Society examinations in 1892 and the next year he founded Newbald Kays, a firm of solicitors in York. A Methodist, he was for a time a member of the Methodist Conference and funded the construction of a chapel in Acomb.

He was Lord Mayor of York in 1925 and from 1923 to 1924 he was Liberal MP for Elland in West Yorkshire.