Richard Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baron Shuttleworth

Richard Ughtred Paul Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baron Shuttleworth (30 October 1913 – 8 August 1940) was a British officer of the Royal Air Force, peer, and landowner, and a member of the House of Lords from 1937 until his death.

The Right Honourable The Lord Shuttleworth CC
In office 20 December 1939 – 8 August 1940
Preceded by	Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth
Succeeded by	Ronald Kay-Shuttleworth, 3rd Baron Shuttleworth
Personal details
Born	The Hon. Richard Ughtred Paul Kay-Shuttleworth 30 October 1913
Nationality	British subject
Parent	Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth (father)
Education	Eton College
Occupation	Flying officer
Known for	British peer and air force officer

The elder son of Captain Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, eldest son of Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth, and his wife Selina Adine Bridgeman, he was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated BA.[1]

Elected as a member of Lancashire County Council in 1937, Shuttleworth also became a Justice of the Peace for the county and was commissioned as a Flying Officer into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. On 20 December 1939, he succeeded his grandfather as the 2nd Baron Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe (created 1902), and also to a baronetcy created in 1849, and inherited the Gawthorpe Hall estate at Ightenhill.[1]

Shuttleworth fought in the Battle of Britain and in August 1940 was killed in action during air operations which formed part of it,[1] when his Hawker Hurricane went missing during a battle over a convoy in the English Channel, south of the Isle of Wight.[2]