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Rice Richard Clayton

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Rice Richard Clayton (15 November 1798 – 4 May 1879), sometimes Richard Rice Clayton,[1][2] was a British Conservative politician.[3]

Quick Facts Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, Preceded by ...

Born in Harleyford, Buckinghamshire, Clayton was the fourth son of Sir William Clayton, 4th Baronet and Mary née East. He was first educated at Eton College, before attending Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1820 and a Master of Arts in 1824. He also entered Lincoln's Inn in 1819.[2]

In 1832, he married Maria Amelia Nugent, daughter of Maria, Lady Nugent and Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, and they had at least six children[4]

  • Capt. Richard Nugent (3 Sep 1833-Feb 1914). Unmarried.
  • George Augustus (1840-3 March 1918), who married Elizabeth Godbere but had no issue.
  • Edward Everard (1842-Jul 1875)
  • Maria Augusta (d. 13 Nov 1875),
  • Francis Edmund (Dec 1844-11 Apr 1905), who married Eliza Liggins, and had one known daughter, Leila Cecilia -She married her cousin Sir Harold Dudley Clayton, 10th Baronet.
  • Arthur John (5 Dec 1846-22 Dec 1922), who married Alice Rose Jones, and by her had three daughters.
  • Louisa Maude (c. 1847-8 Jul 1923), Francis Arthur Hervey, son of Lord William, and grandson of both Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol and Vice Adm. Thomas Fremantle. They had three children.
  • Emily Rose (c. 1847-27 Dec 1936), who married James Melvill Davidson but had no known issue.

Clayton became a Conservative MP for Aylesbury at the 1841 general election but was defeated at the next general election in 1847.[2][3][4][5]

During his life, Clayton was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire, as well as a High Sheriff for the same county in 1838.[2][4]

References

  1. [1]
    Rayment, Leigh (22 September 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "A"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. [2]
    Venn, John, ed. (1898). Gonville and Caius College 1349–1897, containing a list of all known members of the college from the foundation to the present time, with biographical notes. Volume II: 1713–1897. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 166. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. [3]
    Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 15–17. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  4. [4]
    Foster, Joseph (1881). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1881. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 124. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. [5]
    Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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