CLAVELL, Richard. Second lieut. R.M.L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1872 to death; L.G. 25 Dec. 1877. d. Gosport 1 Sep. 1878 in 59 year.
CLAVERING, Sir Thomas John, 8 Baronet. b. 6 April 1771; succeeded 14 Oct. 1794; raised at his own expense a troop of yeomanry 1798; sheriff of Northumberland 1817–18. d. Clifton 18 Nov. 1853.
CLAVERING, Sir William Aloysius, 9 Baronet. b. 1800; succeeded 18 Nov. 1853; sheriff of Durham 1859. d. St. George’s hospital, London 8 Oct. 1872.
CLAXTON, Marshall (son of Rev. Marshall Claxton of Bolton, Lancs., Wesleyan minister). b. Bolton 12 May 1813; entered Royal Academy, Jany. 1831; awarded gold medal of Society of Arts 1835; competed in the Cartoon exhibitions at Westminster hall 1843, 1844 and 1847; took out to Australia about 200 pictures by himself and others, which he exhibited gratis 1850, this being the first exhibition of works of art in Australia; went to India where he sold most of the pictures; painted for the Queen, ‘General view of Sydney’ and ‘Portrait of the last Queen of the Aborigines’; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 31 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery. d. 155 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 28 July 1881.
CLAY, Alfred Borron (2 son of Rev. John Clay 1796–1858). b. Walton near Preston 3 June 1831; articled to a solicitor at Preston; studied art in Liverpool and London; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1852–70; his chief pictures were ‘The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Lochleven Castle,’ ‘Charles ix and the French court at the massacre of St. Bartholomew,’ ‘The return to Whitehall 29 May 1660,’ now in the Walker gallery at Liverpool. d. Rainhill near Liverpool 1 Oct. 1868.
CLAY, Sir George, 3 Baronet. b. 14 Aug. 1831; ensign 19 foot 1849, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 14 Oct. 1876. d. 17 Cavendish square, London 30 June 1878.
CLAY, James (son of James Clay of Old Broad st. London, merchant). b. London 1804; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1827; took the leading parts in operas performed by amateurs at Florence when Lord Burghersh was British minister there 1821–30; travelled in the Holy Land with B. Disraeli 1830; a merchant in London; contested Beverley, July 1837, and Hull, June 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–53 and 1857 to death; chairman of committee to settle laws of whist 1863, by his book on whist and influence made the game popular and intelligible; the finest whist and piquet player of his time; he is described under name of Castlemaine in G. W. Lawrence’s novel Sans Merci, or kestrels and falcons 3 vols. 1866; author of A treatise, on the game of whist by J. C., affixed to J. L. Baldwin’s Laws of short whist 1864. d. 30 Regency sq. Brighton 26 Sep. 1873. W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of Hull celebrities (1876) 473–7; Westminster Papers vi, 117–8 (1873); Graphic viii, 362, 376 (1873), portrait; Power, Rodwell and Dew’s Controverted elections ii, 96–100 (1857).
Note.—He was unseated March 1853 for bribery by his agents, in Feb. 1857 he was again returned and his election is the only instance on record of a member unseated on petition taking his seat a second time for the same place in the same parliament, the case would have been tried before a committee of the House of Commons had not a dissolution occurred 20 March 1857.
CLAY, Rev. John (5 son of Thomas Clay of Liverpool, ship and anchor smith, who d. 1821). b. Liverpool 10 May 1796; invented an improved bow and arrow which long bore his name; assist, chap, of Preston gaol 11 Aug. 1821; entered Em. coll. Cam. as a ten years man 1822, B.D. 1835; chap, of Preston gaol, Aug. 1823 to Jany. 1858; issued annual reports 1824–57, in 1836 his annual reports were reprinted in a parliamentary blue book; author of Twenty five sermons 1827; Burial clubs and infanticide in England 1854; A plain address to candidates for confirmation 1866. d. Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 21 Nov. 1858. The prison chaplain by Rev. W. L. Clay (1861), portrait.
CLAY, Richard. b. Cambridge; apprenticed to John Smith at the Pitt Press, Cambridge; printer near Devonshire square, Bishopsgate, London; printer to the S.P.G.; head of firm of Clay Sons and Taylor, Bread st. hill, London, retired Oct. 1868. d. Hornsey 10 Dec. 1877 in 89 year. Bookseller, January 1878 p. 7.