John Clayton (minister)

He was educated at Leyland grammar school, and was apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Boultbee, an apothecary in Manchester.

[1] Sir Harry Trelawny, 7th Baronet, minister of a Presbyterian congregation at West Looe in Cornwall, took Clayton on as assistant.

He held similar posts at Fetter Lane, Holborn, and Hare Court, Aldersgate.

[1] About 1820 Clayton bought a small estate at Gaines in Essex, and in 1826 he resigned the charge of the Weigh-house, after a pastorate of 48 years.

The case was tried before Lord Mansfield 25 July 1808, and the verdict of the jury awarded 40 shillings damages, just enough to carry costs.

John Clayton, junior was pastor of the Poultry Chapel, London, and died at Bath, Somerset 3 October 1865, aged 85.