Patrick Andrew Clayton DSO MBE (16 April 1896 – 17 March 1962[1]) was a British surveyor and soldier.
[2] Clayton was born in Croydon, London, in April 1896 and, after serving as an officer with the Royal Field Artillery of the British Army during World War I,[3] spent nearly 20 years with the Egyptian Survey department during the 1920s and 1930s extensively mapping large areas of previously unmapped desert.
He was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps and served in the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG).
He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal in 1941 for his work in the Libyan desert.
Patrick Clayton Drive, built on the former Joint Services School of Intelligence site in Ashford, Kent, is named after him.