Kay, John, a Scottish caricaturist, born near Dalkeith; began business in Edinburgh first as a barber and then as a print-seller; author of sketches of local celebrities, now collected in two volumes, and of much interest and value as a record of the Edinburgh of his time (1742‒1826).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kay, Sir * Kaye, Sir John William