Joseph Clayton Explained

Joseph Clayton
Birth Date:	28 April 1867
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Date:	November 1943 (aged 76)
Death Place:	Chipping Campden, England
Occupation:	Journalist, writer
Education:	Worcester College, Oxford
Party:	Independent Labour

Joseph Clayton (1867–1943) was an English freelance journalist and biographer. A writer of numerous books, he covered areas of trade union and socialist history, but also religious figures and history.^[1]

Life

Joseph Clayton was born in London 28 April 1867 and attended the North London Collegiate School. He was a Christian socialist as an undergraduate at Worcester College, Oxford, where he was a classmate of Richard Runciman Terry. He became an organiser of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and supported socialist causes.^[2] In 1896 he was an ILP member in Leeds.^[3]

He edited The New Age in 1907, successor to Arthur Compton-Rickett,^[4] before it was sold to a group backing A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson;^[5] Clayton knew Orage from the ILP.^[6] He was a convert to Roman Catholicism in 1910, and was an organist at Westminster Cathedral. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[7]

Clayton was a contributor to the National Review, The Athenaeum, The Universe, The Bookman, and the Catholic Encyclopedia. He also wrote in support of women's suffrage.^[8]

He died at Chipping Campden in November 1943.^[9]

Works

• Father Dolling (1902) on Robert William Radclyffe Dolling
• Grace Marlow (1903) novel^[10]
• John Blankset's Business (1904) novel
• Bishop Westcott (1906)
• The Bishops as Legislators (1906)
• The Truth About the Lords: Our New Nobility, 1857–1907 (1907)
• Robert Owen, Pioneer of Social Reforms (1908)
• Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt (1909)
• The True Story of Jack Cade (1910)
• Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic History (1910)
• The Rise of the Democracy (1911)
• Robert Kett and the Norfolk Rising (1912)
• Co-operation and the Trade Unions (1912)
• Father Stanton of St Albans, Holborn (1913)
• Trade Unions (1913)
• Economics For Christians (1924)
• The Historic Basis of Anglicanism: A Short Survey of the Foundations of the Anglican Communion (1925)
• The Rise and Decline of Socialism in Great Britain, 1884–1924 (1926)
• Continuity in the Church of England (1928)
• St Hugh of Lincoln (1931)
• Sir Thomas More: A Short Study (1933)
• The Protestant Reformation in Great Britain (1934)
• Pope Innocent III and His Times (1941)

External links

• Newsletter report
  • • Online Books page

Notes and References

1. Fergus Kerr, The First Issue, New Blackfriars, Volume 84, Issue 992, pages 434–447, October 2003. Online abstract
2. News: A Disillusioned Socialist . 5 November 2020 . Malayan Saturday Post . 31 December 1927 . 39.
3. http://libcom.org/files/Liberty%20UK%20%28Apr%201896%29.pdf Liberty, vol. III, no. 4, April 1896, p. 8
4. Book: Martin . Wallace . 'The New Age' Under Orage . 1967 . . 23 . 5 November 2020.
5. John Carswell, Lives and Letters, London, 1978,, p 32.
6. Web site: Scholes . Robert . General Introduction to The New Age 1907-1922 . Modernist Journals Project . 5 November 2020.
7. Clayton . Joseph . Irish Catholics and the British Labour Movement . 30093557 . . June 1925 . 14 . 54 . 284–294.
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=oZQuAAAAYAAJ&q=W.H.+Grattan+Flood&pg=PA10 "Clayton, Joseph", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 30
9. News: Mr. Joseph Clayton . . 6 . 1943-11-22 . 2021-05-25 . Newspapers.com.
10. Review of Grace Marlow by Joseph Clayton. The Athenaeum. 3941. May 9, 1903. 590.