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Stockport and district. He was a great lover of music, He 

 said on one occasion, "it is like mercy — it is twice blessed — it 

 blesses him that gives and him that takes." As giving an insight 

 into his life may be quoted his composition : — 



"The Dream of Rest." 



Music by the late Dr. Henry Watson. 



Dull and drear is the waning year, meeting its end at last. 

 Sweet and low is the evening glow, after the storms are past. 

 The friends we love now gone before, the days' long work now 



done, 

 Dark is the prospect of the night, when light and love are gone. 



Oh for the wings of angels' light, mounting to realms of bliss, 

 Soaring to the sun's great orb and brighter worlds than this 

 The future life and new domain, the sage's dream of rest, 

 Set as a jewel in the sky, resplendent for the blest. 



Mr. Kay was appointed a Stockport Borough Magistrate in 

 1886, and a County Magistrate in 1907. In politics he was a 

 liberal and for some time was President of the Stockport Liberal 

 Association. He was a Governor of the Pendlebury Charity for 

 Orphans ; a Governor of the Stockport Grammar School ; an 

 ex-President of the Stockport Cricket Club ; one of the Ephraim 

 Hallam Trustees ; a founder of the Stockport Lads' Club ; a 

 Past-President of the Stockport Naturalists' Society and Photo- 

 graphic Society and of the Stockport Field Club ; President of 

 the Students' Sketching Club ; Vice-President of the Manchester 

 Literary Club ; Founder of the Manchester Pharmaceutical 

 Association Scholarship ; President of the Manchester Glee 

 Club. 



There was no end to Mr. Kay's activities in the realms of 

 literature, science and art. He had an artistic instinct which 

 found expression in verse, in song, and on canvas. 



He was a great traveller, almost every year visiting the art 

 centres of Europe and picking up objects of art and other 

 treasures. In this way he got together the splendid collection 



