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 1939 until his death eight months later.
Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth; his father was the eldest son of Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth and his wife Selina Adine Bridgeman.
[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.