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.

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]

Works
  • Father Dolling (1902) on Robert William Radclyffe Dolling
  • Grace Marlow (1903) novel
  • 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)

References
  1. Fergus Kerr, The First Issue, New Blackfriars, Volume 84, Issue 992, pages 434–447, October 2003. Online abstract
  2. http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Page/malayansatpost19271231.1.39.aspx%5B%5D
  3. Liberty, vol. III, no. 4, April 1896, p. 8
  4. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/pdf/martin02.pdf, at p. 23.
  5. John Carswell, Lives and Letters, London, 1978, ISBN 0-571-10596-3, p 32.
  6. "Modernist Journals Project". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  7. Joseph Clayton, Irish Catholics and the British Labour Movement, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 14, No. 54 (Jun., 1925), pp. 284-294.
  8. "Clayton, Joseph", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 30 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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