Lt. Col. Courthorpe Clayton (c. 1706 – 22 March 1762) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, courtier and Member of Parliament for Mallow.
[1] He was the son of Laurence Clayton of Mallow and his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir Peter Courthorpe of Little Island.
Courthorpe lived at Annabella near Mallow in County Cork and at Shepherd's Bush in Middlesex.
He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Mallow in 1727 and (through the influence of Lord Cornwallis) to the British House of Commons for Eye on 5 May 1749, sitting until the dissolution of both Parliaments on the King's death in 1760.
He was described by Lord Dupplin as a supporter of the Government in 1754 but is not known to have ever spoken or voted.