| 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 |
| Political 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)
References
- ^ Fergus Kerr, The First Issue, New Blackfriars, Volume 84, Issue 992, pages 434–447, October 2003. Online abstract
- ^ "A Disillusioned Socialist". Malayan Saturday Post. 31 December 1927. p. 39. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ Liberty, vol. III, no. 4, April 1896, p. 8
- ^ Martin, Wallace (1967). 'The New Age' Under Orage. Manchester University Press. p. 23. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ John Carswell, Lives and Letters, London, 1978, ISBN 0-571-10596-3, p 32.
- ^ Scholes, Robert. "General Introduction to The New Age 1907-1922". Modernist Journals Project. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ Clayton, Joseph (June 1925). "Irish Catholics and the British Labour Movement". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 14 (54): 284–294. JSTOR 30093557
- ^ "Clayton, Joseph", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 30
- ^ "Mr. Joseph Clayton". The Guardian. 1943-11-22. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-05-25. – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Review of Grace Marlow by Joseph Clayton". The Athenaeum. ' (3941): 590. May 9, 1903.