ABSTRACT
One very important effect of all these changes was a vast increase in official work. When Kay-Shuttleworth retired in 1849, after a physical collapse, the Education Department was still almost a family affair. During his tenure of office, the staff had increased from 1 to 40. He had chosen them all, and trained them; and they had imbibed his views and his general philosophy. R. R. W. Lingen who succeeded, fresh from his report on Welsh Education, was faced with a great task of organization and expansion. He was not hampered in this by his predecessor's medical knowledge and human sympathy.
