xxxiv Annual Report of the Council. 



He was largely instrumental in founding the Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society in 1884, and for several years acted as its 

 President. 



So recently as June, 1914, he resigned his Chair of Geology, 

 in the hope of spending some years still in the furtherance of his 

 beloved subject, only to be lost after a brief illness on the 1st of 

 March, 191 5, deeply mourned by all who knew him. q jj 



Thomas Kay, J. P. Born at Hey wood on the 6th March, 

 1841. Died at his residence, Moorfield, Stockport, on the 22nd 

 September, 1914, in his 74th year. 



He was educated at the Bury Grammar School. In 1856 

 he was apprenticed to Mr. James Greenough, chemist and 

 druggist, of Heywood. 



After acting as assistant to chemists in various towns, he 

 went to London in 1863 to the position of retail manager to 

 Mr. Peter Squire, chemist to Her Majesty, in Oxford Street. 



In 1866 he joined his brother, now Mr. Samuel Kay, J. P., 

 in founding the firm of Kay Brothers, at Lower Hillgate, in 

 Stockport. The firm was very successful, many of their Pharma- 

 ceutical preparations gaining world wide repute. Subsequently 

 the business was removed to St. Petersgate, Stockport, and made 

 into a private Limited Company. 



Mr. Kay never forgot his early days at Heywood and gave 

 many liberal gifts to the Bury Grammar School and to the town. 



In October, 191 2, they presented him with the freedom of 

 the Borough of Heywood, and he became the first: Honorary 

 Freeman. 



He married Ellen, daughter of James Downs, of Stockport, 

 who died on the 13th September, 1879. His only child, Harold, 

 predeceased his father by about two years. 



He founded and presented to his native town of Heywood 

 an Art Gallery and Museum, along with many pictures by the 

 Old Masters and some of the Modern School, and a fine 

 collection of crystals and some antiques. The Art Gallery and 

 Museum were opened in July, 191 2. 



