Joseph Clayton

Joseph Clayton FRHistS (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]

This article is about the journalist and biographer. For the CEO of Dish Network, see Joe Clayton.

Joseph Clayton
Born(1867-04-28)28 April 1867
London, England
DiedNovember 1943 (aged 76)
Chipping Campden, England
EducationWorcester College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
Political partyIndependent Labour

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)

References
  1. Fergus Kerr, The First Issue, New Blackfriars, Volume 84, Issue 992, pages 434–447, October 2003. Online abstract
  2. "A Disillusioned Socialist". Malayan Saturday Post. 31 December 1927. p. 39. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  3. Liberty, vol. III, no. 4, April 1896, p. 8
  4. Martin, Wallace (1967). 'The New Age' Under Orage (PDF). Manchester University Press. p. 23. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  5. John Carswell, Lives and Letters, London, 1978, ISBN 0-571-10596-3, p 32.
  6. Scholes, Robert. "General Introduction to The New Age 1907-1922". Modernist Journals Project. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  7. Clayton, Joseph (June 1925). "Irish Catholics and the British Labour Movement". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 14 (54): 284–294. JSTOR 30093557.
  8. "Clayton, Joseph", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 30Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  9. "Mr. Joseph Clayton". The Guardian. 22 November 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Review of Grace Marlow by Joseph Clayton". The Athenaeum (3941): 590. 9 May 1903.
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