Ronald Orlando Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth, 3rd Baron Shuttleworth (1917– 17 November 1942) was a British Army officer, peer, and landowner, and a member of the House of Lords from 1940 until his death.
The second 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.[1]
In 1940, he succeeded his older brother as Baron Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe (created 1902), and also to a baronetcy created in 1849, and inherited the Gawthorpe Hall estate at Ightenhill.[1]
Shuttleworth was commussioned into the Royal Artillery and fought in the North African campaign of the Second World War. In November 1942 he was killed in action.[1]
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- ^ a b c Burke's Peerage, volume 3 (2003), p. 3616