Joseph Clayton

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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

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]

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.