Jasper Clayton

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Jasper Clayton
Died	27 June 1743 Wingfield, Buckinghamshire
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	War of Spanish Succession War of Austrian Succession

Lieutenant General Jasper Clayton (died 27 June 1743) was Governor of Gibraltar.

Military career

Born the son of Sir John Clayton and Alice (Bowyer) Clayton, Jasper Clayton lived at Fernhill in Buckinghamshire.^[1] He chose to join the Army and climbed the ranks to become a Lieutenant General.^[1] In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, he was present at the Battle of Almansa.^[2]

In 1713 he was made Colonel of the 14th Regiment of Foot.^[3]

He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar in 1727 remaining there until 1730.^[1] He fought in the War of Austrian Succession and was killed at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743.^[1] He is buried at Wingfield in Buckinghamshire.^[1]

References

Government offices
Preceded by Richard Kane	Governor of Gibraltar 1727–1730	Succeeded by Joseph Sabine

v t e Governors of Gibraltar

	Spanish period (1462-1704) De Salinas Habsburg occupation (1704) Hesse-Darmstadt Nugent Shrimpton Elliott Stanwix Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Portmore Kane Clayton Sabine Hargrave Bland Fowke Tyrawley Home Cornwallis Boyd Eliott Boyd Rainsford O'Hara Kent and Strathearn Fox Dalrymple Cradock Campbell Don Chatham Don Crown colony (1830) Houston Woodford Wilson Gardiner Fergusson Codrington Airey Williams Napier of Magdala Adye Hardinge Smyth Nicholson Biddulph White Forestier-Walker Hunter Miles Smith-Dorrien Monro Godley Harington Ironside Liddell Gort Mason-Macfarlane Eastwood Anderson MacMillan Redman Keightley Ward Lathbury Begg Grandy Jackson British dependent territory (1981) Williams Terry Reffell Chapple White Luce Durie British Overseas Territory (2002) Richards Fulton Johns Dutton

Persondata
Name	Clayton, Jasper
Alternative names
Short description	British Army general
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	27 June 1743
Place of death	Wingfield, Buckinghamshire

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