Ernest Henry Collet Clayton (9 November 1889 – 30 December 1946) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
[2] John Edward Clayton and his wife Frances Elizabeth (née Mills).
He attended Maryborough Grammar School and upon leaving became a dairy farmer and grew sugarcane.
[3] He died in December 1946 after a long illness[2] and was buried in the Maryborough Cemetery the same day.
[4] Clayton started his career in politics by being a councillor on the Tinana Shire Council in 1910.