Joseph Clayton

This article is about Joseph Clayton. For Joseph "Joe" P. Clayton (CEO of Dish Network), see Joe Clayton.

Joseph Clayton (1868-1943) 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

He was a Christian Socialist as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford. He became an organiser of the Independent Labour Party, 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 Catholicism in 1910. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[7]

Works

Notes

  1. Fergus Kerr OP, 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
  3. http://libcom.org/files/Liberty%20UK%20%28Apr%201896%29.pdf, p. 8 of PDF.
  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. http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=mjp.2005.00.001&view=mjp_object
  7. Joseph Clayton, Irish Catholics and the British Labour Movement, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 14, No. 54 (Jun., 1925), pp. 284-294.

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